Evidence and Knowledge from Computer Simulation.

Can computer simulation results be evidence for hypotheses about real-world systems and phenomena? If so, what sort of evidence? Can we gain genuinely new knowledge of the world via simulation? I argue that evidence from computer simulation is aptly characterized as higher-order evidence: it is evid...

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Published in:Erkenntnis Vol. 87; no. 4; pp. 1521 - 1539
Main Author: Parker, Wendy S.
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Aug2022
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