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+|  EMPIRICAL REASONING  | Defeasible / non-axiomatic reasoning where the data, rules, and results are restricted to the physical world.  |
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-|  **Model**  | A model is a "cartoon" of a phenomenon -- an information structure that captures the most important (preferably all the important) aspects of a phenomenon in question.  |
+|  What it is  | A model is a "cartoon" of a phenomenon -- an information structure that captures the most important (preferably all the important) aspects of a phenomenon in question.  |
 |  All scientific theories present a model  | No matter how explicit or implicit, all scientific theories are models of the world. //Best known example: E=mc^2//   |
 |  Science vs. Mathematics  | Mathematics is **axiomatic**: Some a-priori premises are (and must be) assumed. \\ Science is non-axiomatic: We do not know the full set of rules that govern the universe, and we will never know.   |