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Mathematical Models _______ Fundamental Questions in the Philosophy of Science: AddMe - Search Engine Optimization • What is a scientific theory? • How are scientific theories tested? • What is a scientific explanation?
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Caution! Models ≠ Theories
• Mathematical models are relational structures.
• There can no mathematical relations between models and world per se – degree of fit, isomorphism, homomorphism, etc. are relations between mathematical structures.
• Theories have epistemic properties – they can be the objects of propositional attitudes; mathematical structures cannot be.
• Theories have semantic properties that mathematical structures cannot – truth-values for example.
Thus,
• For a model to fit or bear some mapping to the world, the empirical system must be construed as a relational structure, a model of the data.
• It is theoretical hypotheses which are believed, confirmed, accepted, etc.
• Theories are thus hybrid entities – structures and propositions.
• When we say that model predicts some feature of system, we are claiming that the model fits the systems in some respect to some degree.
• When we say that a model explains some feature of a system, we are claiming that the model fits the system in some respect and to some degree such that it preserves the causal relation of interest.
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