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work_ot6ivacimjgfrkde5x7noafyvu	Johannes Lenhard	Surprised by a Nanowire: Simulation, Control, and Understanding	2006	12	.pdf	application/pdf	4399	281	47	The coincidence of surprising behavior both in matter and in simulation models is the new mode of scientific understanding based on the deployment of epistemically opaque investigation of simulation in nanoscience reveals how science, and, in particular, the laws implemented in the simulation model produce the behavior. simulation-based approach: so-called density functional theory (DFT). Thus, to summarize, simulation can provide understanding in the pragmatic sense. from a theory T that provides scientific explanations and thereby understanding, thus Although simulations may offer pragmatic understanding and potential for So, do simulations provide understanding at all? model's overall behavior, that is, on the basis of simulation experiments and the The basis of this pragmatic account is the new instrumental access that simulations present context of simulation modeling, epistemic opacity is given a new twist: The Computer simulations offer a pragmatic mode of understanding, and Models, Simulation, and "Computer Experiments".	./cache/work_ot6ivacimjgfrkde5x7noafyvu.pdf	./txt/work_ot6ivacimjgfrkde5x7noafyvu.txt