id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 2514nk33x2g Lee Allen Mayo Simulation without Replication: How Some Digital Computer Simulations Serve as Scientific Experiments 2011 .txt text/plain 286 10 22 One common argument that has emerged in the literature is that computer simulations cannot count as experiments because (1) empirical theory testing cannot be performed with a computer simulation since it must assume the very theory that is supposedly being tested and (2) empirical theory testing is the only form of theory guided experimentation. Philosophers and historians of science have only recently begun to think about issues involving the use of computer simulations in scientific practice. cache/2514nk33x2g.txt txt/2514nk33x2g.txt