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(2013) Synthese 190 (2).
Classical population genetics and the semantic approach to scientific theories
Peter Gildenhuys
pp. 273-291
In what follows, I argue that the semantic approach to scientific theories fails as a means to present the Wright–Fisher formalism (WFF) of population genetics. I offer an account of what population geneticist understand insofar as they understand the WFF, a variation on Lloyd’s view that population genetics can be understood as a family of models of mid-level generality.
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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-012-0146-3
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Gildenhuys, P. (2013). Classical population genetics and the semantic approach to scientific theories. Synthese 190 (2), pp. 273-291.
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