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work_oeqyb46q35cedphunyq3i2vs5e	Arnon Levy	Models, Fictions, and Realism: Two Packages	2012	14	.pdf	application/pdf	4978	415	64	Models, Fictions & Realism: Two Packages ways, each involving a distinct notion of fiction and a corresponding formulation of realism. modeling is a species of fiction-making (Godfey-Smith, 2006, 2009; Frigg, 2010; Toon, 2010). unconstrained by truth, then viewing models as fictions is incompatible with the most basic tenet of So stated, there is an incompatibility between the models-as-fictions approach and scientific realism. fiction, coupled to a version of the realist principle that treats modeling as resulting in comparative and direct understanding of realism as the view that science ought to aim at true models isn't available models as low-key, worldly fictions, and a knowledge-based formulation of realism. However, the second package raises an issue of its own: if fictional models are imaginative One sets up a fictional system, the model system, then compares "Models and Fiction". "Models and Fictions in Science", Philosophical Studies, 143 (1): 101-	./cache/work_oeqyb46q35cedphunyq3i2vs5e.pdf	./txt/work_oeqyb46q35cedphunyq3i2vs5e.txt