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Using Models to Represent Reality
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Metadata
- Authors
- Giere, R. N.
- Venue
- Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Published
- 1999
- Pages
- 41-57
- OpenAlex
- W33188510
- Cited by
- 298
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 72.81
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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- Giere, R. N. (1999). Using Models to Represent Reality. Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4813-3_3
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Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
