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Scientific Hypotheses and Modeling

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This paper focuses on the notions of hypothesis and substitution involved in the inferential process established between M and TS in modeling practice. We reflect on the licenses and limitations of the so-called surrogate reasoning and propose a possible formal interpretation of it.

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    Smith (1989, p. 38) translates this sentence as: “And likewise also all the other kinds of deduction that are from an assumption (έξ ύποθέσεως).”

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Acknowledgments

This work has been financially supported by the Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo - Chile (ANID), with the followings projects: Fondecyt Regular N∘ 1221132 (Responsible Juan Redmond) and Fondecyt N∘ 3210531 (Responsible Rodrigo López-Orellana).

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  1. Instituto de Filosofía, Universidad de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile

    Juan Redmond & Rodrigo Lopez-Orellana

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  1. St. John Fisher University, Philosophy, Rochester, NY, USA

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  2. Departement of Philosophy, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Jean-Yves Béziau

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Redmond, J., Lopez-Orellana, R. (2024). Scientific Hypotheses and Modeling. In: Madigan, T.J., Béziau, JY. (eds) Universal Logic, Ethics, and Truth. Studies in Universal Logic. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44461-6_11

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