Symbolic versus Modelistic Elements in Scientific Modeling

1Symbolic versus Modelistic Elements in Scientific Modeling*

In this paper, we argue that symbols are conventional vehicles whose chief function is denotation, while models are epistemic vehicles, and their chief function is to show what their targets are like in the relevant aspects. And we explain why this is incompatible with the deflationary view on scientific modeling. Although the same object may serve both functions, the two vehicles are conceptua...

Scientific Elements

A Smarandache geometry is a geometry which has at least one Smarandachely denied axiom(1969), i.e., an axiom behaves in at least two different ways within the same space, i.e., validated and invalided, or only invalided but in multiple distinct ways and a Smarandache n-manifold is a nmanifold that support a Smarandache geometry. Iseri provided a construction for Smarandache 2-manifolds by equil...

Recurrence of Symbolic Elements in Dynamics

the survey of triple symbolic elements in susa- cup

nature has great importance on prehistoric human life and attention to the environment and discovering mysteries of life which influence their life, always have been considered as concerns of prehistoric people. the elements such as water, wind and earth for primary human were important elements because of no awareness of environment in primary stages of sedentary life. human beings always trie...

Numeric versus Symbolic Computation

Twentyfive years ago when I studied Physics, only one of the students who participated in a laboratory course that I took was possessing one of the first calculators to process the data we were obtaining. Believe it or not, everybody else, including me, had to use a slide-rule for this purpose. Nowadays, the calculator is used by everybody, by far not only for academic purposes. Hence it is the...