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Type Book Chapter
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Reflections on Marvin Minsky’s Definition of “Model”
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Authors
  • Lorenz Hilty
Editors
  • Gordon Blair
  • Betty Cheng
  • Lorenz Hilty
  • Richard Paige
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Booktitle Modeling for Sustainability
Place of Publication Dagstuhl
Publisher Dagstuhl Publishing
Page Range 157 - 158
Date 2019
Abstract Text “To an observer B, an object A* is a model of an object A to the extent that B can use A* to answer questions that interest him about A.” This definition includes concrete, tangible models as well as conceptual models that are described in (usually formal) languages.
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