@misc{Lexicon of Arguments, title = {Quotation from: Lexicon of Arguments – Concepts - Ed. Martin Schulz, 29 Mar 2024}, author = {Cartwright,Nancy}, subject = {Distribution Function}, note = {I 156 Distribution function/Probability distribution/Cartwright: There is not real. False: "which p.f. is in this room?". Correct: it only exists in the model. That is, in real space, the vectors do not exist. >Models, >Reality. Another problem: the "billiard" model is true for simple, but not for complex situations. Analogy/Billard/Sellars: takes place at a higher level. The relations between the properties are analogous, not the features themselves - E.g. laser and oscillator have no characteristics in common. - ((s) Even though the behavior described in part by the same equations.) CartwrightVsSellars: the generality and validity without exception is only an illusion. >Generality.}, note = { Car I N. Cartwright How the laws of physics lie Oxford New York 1983 CartwrightR I R. Cartwright A Neglected Theory of Truth. Philosophical Essays, Cambridge/MA pp. 71-93 In Theories of Truth, Paul Horwich, Aldershot 1994 CartwrightR II R. Cartwright Ontology and the theory of meaning Chicago 1954 }, file = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=281286} url = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=281286} }