KnowraScientific modelLinked fromLinked fromThe 15 pages that link to Scientific model, each with the reason it gives.All 15Related 8Narrower topic 6Compared with 1Scientific illustrationNarrower topic: Illustrations often function as visual models rather than literal copies.Thought experimentNarrower topic: Thought experiments often operate within a model, but need not calculate its outcomes.Mental representationNarrower topic: Scientific models provide a public, constructed counterpart to internal representation.Model selectionNarrower topic: Scientific model choice also weighs mechanisms and explanatory aims beyond statistical fit.Ceteris paribusNarrower topic: Ceteris paribus assumptions are one way models simplify complex systems.Harold JeffreysNarrower topic: Jeffreys’s career shows how a powerful model of Earth can succeed in one respect and fail in another.