In Defence of Selfish Genes
@article{Dawkins1981InDO, title={In Defence of Selfish Genes}, author={Richard Dawkins}, journal={Philosophy}, year={1981}, volume={56}, pages={556-573} }
and genetically quite impossible situation' (p. 440), and as a 'grossly simplified and distorted scheme' (p. 444). But of course it is abstract, simplified and distorted. This is what models are, and that is what gives them their usefulness. It is the very property which made my model useful to Mackie and which stimulated his useful contribution. Models do not aspire to mimic reality faithfully. If they did, they would not be models, they would be reality. In physics, for instance, it is…
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