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Models, according to common understanding, facilitate to make and share references. A reference is a deictic activity whose point of origin differs from its target. The activity of modeling rests on taking a reference’s point of origin as a substitute for its target. In this paper I discuss two aspects of modeling, namely abstraction and direction-of-fit. I am going to show that representation, rather than abstraction, is key to modeling and that the direction-of-fit is not inherent to a model.
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Kaschek, R. (2013). A Semantic Analysis of Shared References. In: Ng, W., Storey, V.C., Trujillo, J.C. (eds) Conceptual Modeling. ER 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8217. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41924-9_8
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