Why Do Biologists Use So Many Diagrams?
Diagrams have distinctive characteristics that make them an effective medium for communicating research findings, but they are even more impressive as tools for scientific reasoning. To explore this role, we examine diagrammatic formats that have been devised by biologists to (a) identify and illumi...
| Published in: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 80; no. 5; pp. 931 - 945 |
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Dec2013
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