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work_bij3m55cvzhzfdgl4dclclv46y	Adam Toon	Playing with molecules	2011	32	.pdf	application/pdf	11417	820	69	I assess the make-believe view through an empirical study of molecular models. viewing and manipulating molecules, just as children playing with a doll might imagine Models – representation – imagination – fiction – depiction manipulation will show that scientists' imaginative participation in molecular modelling extends beyond reflexive props: users imagine the models themselves to be molecules. saying that users of molecular models are supposed to imagine that, for example, ethane they participate in the games of make-believe they play with molecular models in a variety of that scientists manipulating molecular models imagine themselves manipulating molecules. make-believe, and that users of molecular models participate in these games. Shaffer (1979), Weisberg and Bloom (2009) and Wyman et. imagining the balls and sticks of the models to be atoms and bonds; users of molecular models also imagine themselves looking at molecules, picking them up and twisting them Models as make-believe: Imagination, fiction and scientific 	./cache/work_bij3m55cvzhzfdgl4dclclv46y.pdf	./txt/work_bij3m55cvzhzfdgl4dclclv46y.txt