Towards a Taxonomy of the Model-Ladenness of Data.

Model-data symbiosis is the view that there is an interdependent and mutually beneficial relationship between data and models, whereby models are data-laden and data are model-laden. In this article I elaborate and defend the second, more controversial, component of the symbiosis view and construct...

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Published in:Philosophy of Science Vol. 87; no. 5; pp. 793 - 807
Main Author: Bokulich, Alisa
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Published: Cambridge University Press Dec2020
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