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Peter Godfrey-Smith

“But the concepts of truth and falsity are only easy to apply in cases where a representation is in the form of language. In addition to linguistic representations, science often uses mathematical models, and other kinds of models, to describe phenomena. A scientific claim might also be expressed using a diagram. So I use the term "accurate representation" in a broad way to include true linguistic descriptions, pictures and diagrams that resemble reality in the way they are supposed to, models that have the right structural similarity to aspects of the world, and so on.”

Peter Godfrey-Smith, Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
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Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series) Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science by Peter Godfrey-Smith
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