Precisiones sobre la <i>estrategia</i> tropológica en ciencia

Andrés Rivadulla

doi:10.3989/arbor.2011.747n1012

Authors

Andrés Rivadulla UCM

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/arbor.2011.747n1012

Keywords:

Science, realism, models, metaphors, analogies, pragmatism

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to contribute to answering the question of whether it has any sense to talk about a tropological strategy in science. To do this it is necessary to scrutinize the different relationships among models, metaphors and analogies. After expounding some strong realist doctrines, and further moderate ones as well, about the truth value of metaphors in science, I proceed to undertake some precisions connected with certain current approaches on the relationships between analogies and models, and between models and metaphors. For instance, whether analogy is the ground of modelling, or if models constitute a certain form of metaphor. From the analysis of these questions I draw some detailed conclusions that allow me to claim that it is not justified to think about the existence of a deliberate tropological strategy in science.

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