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(2013) The nonlinear world, Dordrecht, Springer.
To model a phenomenon is to give an ultimate expression of what we have understood about the universal features of the phenomenon. After general considerations on models (e.g., how to relate the real world and the world of symbols), abduction is explained. Abduction is an attempt to understand the world phenomenologically relying on the wisdom embodied in ourselves through phylogenetic learning. Successful modeling examples such as phase separation dynamics illustrate abduction. We will reflect on the goodness of models. Good models are possible only for phenomena that allow good phenomenology. Also modeling as a means to devise numerical methods to solve partial differential equations is briefly discussed as a byproduct.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-4-431-54029-8_4
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Oono, Y. (2013). Modeling, in The nonlinear world, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 191-233.
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