Sentences with phrase «literal picture of reality»
Neither is a literal picture of reality, yet neither should be treated as a useful fiction.
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Naive realism is untenable if models are not literal pictures of reality and if the history of science is characterized by major paradigm shifts rather than by simple cumulation or convergence.
They are neither literal pictures of reality nor «useful fictions», but partial and provisional ways of imagining what is not observable; they are symbolic representation of aspects of the world which are not directly accessible to us.
Like scientific models, they are neither literal pictures of reality nor useful fictions.
On the one hand, they are not literal pictures of reality.
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He rightly insists that models are not literal descriptions or pictures of reality, but he does not discuss the development of a coherent set of beliefs based on the models.25