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work_im2l2gsjkfgdhpwvvsl2uii3pa	Eric Winsberg	Simulated Experiments: Methodology for a Virtual World	2003	21	.pdf	application/pdf	9058	569	51	points of view—to understand what methodological and epistemological features simulation has in common with experimentation, while at the same time keeping a keen eye These methods are called "simulations," or "numerical experiments"; names that strongly evoke the metaphor of experimentation. While there is nothing like a received view of the relation between simulation and experiment, I will piece together and critically examine three simulation can have methodological and epistemological features in common with experimentation, while still playing the role of a form of scientific theorizing. consist of second-order, non-linear differential equations; and finding useful and reliable solutions for these models, even using numerical methods, As I have already emphasized, although simulation often is initially motivated by well-established theory, the end model our understanding of the nature of modeling, theorizing, and experimenting, and d) how simulation produces knowledge and what kind of knowledge that is. ——— (2001) "Simulations, Models, and Theories: Complex Physical Systems and Their	./cache/work_im2l2gsjkfgdhpwvvsl2uii3pa.pdf	./txt/work_im2l2gsjkfgdhpwvvsl2uii3pa.txt