Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "An explanatory model is a useful description and explanation of why and how a thing works or an explanation of why a phenomenon is the way it is. The explanatory model is used as a substitute for \"the full explanation\" of the thing in question: either because the full explanation is unavailable or because the full explanation is too cumbersome to be practical in the case at hand.Explanatory models do not claim to be a complete description/explanation of the absolute reality about the thing/phenomenon, nor do they even claim to, necessarily, be fully accurate. The description/explanation does, however, need to fit well enough to a sufficient portion of all the knowledge, observations and theoretical circumstances known about the thing/phenomenon, so that the explanatory model becomes useful.That is: the description/explanation in an explanatory model, should be useful/helpful when one is about to make a decision or choice or when trying to successfully understand, explain or in some other way relate to the reality of the world around us."@en }
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- Explanatory_model abstract "An explanatory model is a useful description and explanation of why and how a thing works or an explanation of why a phenomenon is the way it is. The explanatory model is used as a substitute for \"the full explanation\" of the thing in question: either because the full explanation is unavailable or because the full explanation is too cumbersome to be practical in the case at hand.Explanatory models do not claim to be a complete description/explanation of the absolute reality about the thing/phenomenon, nor do they even claim to, necessarily, be fully accurate. The description/explanation does, however, need to fit well enough to a sufficient portion of all the knowledge, observations and theoretical circumstances known about the thing/phenomenon, so that the explanatory model becomes useful.That is: the description/explanation in an explanatory model, should be useful/helpful when one is about to make a decision or choice or when trying to successfully understand, explain or in some other way relate to the reality of the world around us.".