The generality of scientific models: a measure theoretic approach.

Scientific models are often said to be more or less general depending on how many cases they cover. In this paper we argue that the cardinality of cases is insufficient as a metric of generality, and we present a novel account based on measure theory. This account overcomes several problems with the...

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Publicado en:	Synthese Vol. 192; no. 1; pp. 269 - 286
Autores principales:	Lewis, Cory, Belanger, Christopher
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Springer Nature Jan2015
Materias:	Scientific models Measure theory Philosophy of science Structural genomics Generalization
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