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09 February 2019

Mental Models VI

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“The intellectual capacity thinks the forms in the phantasmata (mental images) […] And for the following reason, as without having perceptua...

Mental Models V

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"He [Simonides] inferred that persons desiring to train this faculty [of memory] must select places and form mental images of the thing...
19 January 2019

Mental Models IV (Limitations I)

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“However, and conversely, our models fall far short of representing the world fully. That is why we make mistakes and why we are regularly s...

Mental Models III

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"Theories usually result from the precipitate reasoning of an impatient mind which would like to be rid of phenomena and replace them w...
12 January 2019

Mathematical Models II

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"Experience teaches that one will be led to new discoveries almost exclusively by means of special mechanical models." (Ludwig Bol...
11 January 2019

On Models: Are All Models Wrong?

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"[…] no models are [true] = not even the Newtonian laws. When you construct a model you leave out all the details which you, with the k...
10 January 2019

Models with a Twist

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"Every theory of the course of events in nature is necessarily based on some process of simplification and is to some extent, therefore...

Models in Physics

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“Physics is the attempt at the conceptual construction of a model of the real world and its lawful structure.” (Albert Einstein, [letter to ...

On Metaphors II

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“The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought,...
06 January 2019

Mental Models II

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"’Mental models’ are deeply ingrained assumptions, generalizations, or even pictures or images that influence how we understand the wor...