Method in the Physical Sciences
- Kind
- Book
- Publisher
- The Unity of Knowledge
- Retrieved
- Jun 11, 2012
- ISBN
- D7E4AAAAIA
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At Best Science Can Only Model
The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is…