The map, the territory, and the cartographer: Linking the “pure” formal models to the “murky” material world

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 45:e189 (2022)
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Assigning to Pearl blankets an instrumental, a “pure” formal role, tacitly delegates the thorny question of mapping the “murky” territory to empirical sciences. But this move side-lines the problem, and does not offer a solution to the question: How do we relate the formal properties of an agent's model of the world to the real properties of the world itself?

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The Foundations of Knowledge.Moritz Schlick - 1966 - In Alfred Jules Ayer (ed.), Logical positivism. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. pp. 209-227.

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