Scientific Models Quotes

“[U]nderdetermination problems can't be made to go away by logic alone. They can only be mitigated by having plenty of data. Pragmatically, one should stop worrying that one's model is underdetermined at the point where it would take superogatory levels of ingenuity to find a competing one.”
― Don Ross

“More important is how the principles function in representational practice. Their function, I think, is to act as general templates for the construction of more specific abstract objects that I would call “models.” Thus, to the principles one adds what I am here calling “specific conditions,” the result being a more specific, but still abstract object.”
― Ronald N. Giere