Conceptual Constructive Models and Abstraction-as-Aggregation.
Conceptual constructive models are a type of scientific model that can be used to construct or reshape the target phenomenon conceptually. Though it has received scant attention from the philosophers, it raises an intriguing issue of how a conceptual constructive model can construct the target pheno...
| Publicado en: | Philosophia Vol. 49; no. 2; pp. 819 - 838 |
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