Structures, Model Systems, and Empirical Applicability
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https://doi.org/10.48160/18532330me1.47Keywords:
set-theoretical structure, model system, objective system, empirical application, structures of data, Metatheoretical StructuralismAbstract
Accepting Frigg’s (2010) distinction between model systems and set-theoretical structures, and acknowledging that model systems are an important part of the apparatus of empirical sciences, my purpose in this paper is precisely to respond the following questions: How are set-theoretical structures used to make empirical claims about real objective systems and what is the role in this endeavor of model systems and structures of data? In particular, how do model systems t-represent (to use Frigg’s terminology) their respective objective systems?
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