On Feb 9, 2007, at 12:26 PM, Pat Hayes wrote:
> ...I think (as I said in
> an email response a few days ago) that the usages
> of "model" in "model theory" and "modelling"
> (respectively realization and prototype) are at
> best unrelated, and at worst almost directly
> opposite in meaning. (01)
I guess I don't see that, Pat. Don't, say, a physical model of a
Boeing 777 and my Tarskian model of the faculty and administration at
Texas A&M both represent (hence, in some sense, "model") relevant
structural features of complex real-world things? (02)
-chris (03)
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