Models and Empirical Claim: the Double Helix Model for the Semantic View of Science
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https://doi.org/10.48160/18532330me7.255Keywords:
models, constructive realism, structuralist view, double helix modelAbstract
The proposal in this article is to compare the way of understanding models and their relationship with the world for two approaches within the semantic family such as the constructive realism and the structuralist view of scientific theories. In order to expose the particularities of these two approaches, we will consider the particular case of the so-called double helix model first proposed by James D. Watson y Francis H. C. Crick (Watson & Crick 1953a). The aim of this work is modest in that it is simply attempted to emphasize the differences between the two above mentioned approaches by considering the treatment that each of these approaches makes of the double helix model and, at best, to enable a more precise understanding of the elements that each propose for the analysis of theories.
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