Computer simulations as experiments.
Whereas computer simulations involve no direct physical interaction between the machine they are run on and the physical systems they are used to investigate, they are often used as experiments and yield data about these systems. It is commonly argued that they do so because they are implemented on...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 169; no. 3; pp. 557 - 575 |
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Springer Nature
Aug2009
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