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Modeling modeling

Stephen M. Downes: Models and modeling in the sciences: A philosophical introduction. New York and London: Routledge, 2020, 114 pp, £34.99 PB

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Dupre, G. Modeling modeling. Metascience 30, 95–98 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-020-00582-4

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