Leveraging distortions : explanation, idealization, and universality in science /
"An original argument about how scientific models often times distort reality rather than accurately reflect it. And it's this distortion that often gives scientific models their epistemic power"--
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press,
[2021]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "An original argument about how scientific models often times distort reality rather than accurately reflect it. And it's this distortion that often gives scientific models their epistemic power"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| ISBN: | 0262365820 9780262365826 |
| DOI: | 10.7551/mitpress/13784.001.0001 |