Reckoning with Continuum Idealizations: Some Lessons from Soil Hydrology.
In scientific modeling, continuum idealizations bridge scales but at the cost of fundamentally misrepresenting the microstructure of the system. This engenders a mystery. If continuum idealizations are dispensable in principle, this de-problematizes their representational inaccuracy, since continuum...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 89; no. 2; pp. 319 - 337 |
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Cambridge University Press
Apr2022
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