Incredible Worlds, Credible Results.
Robert Sugden argues that robustness analysis cannot play an epistemic role in grounding model-world relationships because the procedure is only a matter of comparing models with each other. We posit that this argument is based on a view of models as being surrogate systems in too literal a sense. I...
| Publicado en: | Erkenntnis Vol. 70; no. 1; pp. 119 - 132 |
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