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A comparison of the meaning and uses of models in mathematics and the empirical sciences

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Suppes, P. A comparison of the meaning and uses of models in mathematics and the empirical sciences. Synthese 12, 287–301 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00485107

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