Reference models : using models to turn data into evidence

• 主要作者: Miyake, Teru
• 其他作者: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• 格式: Article
• 語言: English
• 出版: 2016
• 主題: Idealization; Evidence; Methodology; Models; Newton; Geophysics; Earth Science
• 在線閱讀: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/81775; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/39679; http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/11105
• 機構: Nanyang Technological University

Reference models of the earth’s interior play an important role in the acquisition of knowledge about the earth’s interior and the earth as a whole. Such models are used as a sort of standard reference against which data are compared. I argue that the use of reference models merits more attention th...