id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_6vw636molrdypo4rmudbxrpfoa Fiora Salis Models and exploratory models 2017 8 .pdf application/pdf 3593 263 48 exploration as a special function of what he calls exploratory models. largely incomplete and the use he makes of the term 'exploratory model' needs to be outcome on the basis of an extant theory, so exploratory models investigate the consequences Gelfert identifies four different kinds of exploratory models in terms of four more specific the absence of a well-formed theory, exploratory models can function as a starting point in a I have three main concerns with Gelfert's notion of exploratory model. I have three main concerns with Gelfert's notion of exploratory model. exploration as a function of exploratory models. Gelfert's use of the term 'exploratory model' seems to Their uses of the term 'exploratory model' may be in need of Third, Gelfert's characterisation of exploratory models is too narrow. Bankes' characterisation of exploratory models can include Gelfert's characterisation. Furthermore, Gelfert advances a genuinely new notion of exploratory models that deserves to ./cache/work_6vw636molrdypo4rmudbxrpfoa.pdf ./txt/work_6vw636molrdypo4rmudbxrpfoa.txt