Concept · #underdetermination
Underdetermination
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Ten reservoir models fit the same production history. Which one is true, and does the question make sense?
In my work we build computer models of oil reservoirs deep underground, which nobody will ever see. We calibrate them against what we can measure: decades of production rates, pressures in the wells, the water that starts to come up with the…
Started by Abdulrahman Al-Bassam3 replies -
No experiment could tell occasionalism from ordinary causation, so the dispute is not scientific
At work I model how oil, water and gas move through rock. My models predict pressures and flows. They never contain a cause I can see. They contain regularities that I trust because they have held. The Ashʿarī occasionalists said exactly this…
Started by Abdulrahman Al-Bassam4 replies