id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_ybhi6cpljjbwldddqf7wpyur5u James Nguyen On the Pragmatic Equivalence between Representing Data and Phenomena 2016 36 .pdf application/pdf 9707 653 59 Van Fraassen (2008) argues that data provide the target-end structures scientific models ultimately represent, and by implication, accurately or inaccurately target whilst granting that it accurately represents the data on pain of a pragmatic data model to locate the target system in logical space induces certain pragmatic pragmatic equivalence between taking scientific models to accurately represent data the scientist simply cannot doubt that the model accurately represents the target claim that 'this [data model] is my representation of the deer population growth' represent the target system, S locates T in the logical space provided by the model (V. and when S uses a data model to locate a target system T in such a way, S represents T model accurately represents the deer population then provides the analogy with Invoking acceptance when an agent uses a data model to represent a target doesn't given context, taking a scientific model to accurately represent data and the ./cache/work_ybhi6cpljjbwldddqf7wpyur5u.pdf ./txt/work_ybhi6cpljjbwldddqf7wpyur5u.txt