Taming vagueness: the philosophy of network science.
In the last 20 years network science has become an independent scientific field. We argue that by building network models network scientists are able to tame the vagueness of propositions about complex systems and networks, that is, to make these propositions precise. This makes it possible to study...
| Published in: | Synthese Vol. 200; no. 2; pp. 1 - 32 |
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Apr2022
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