What she has constructed, specifically, is a traditional country-house mystery, more brutal than cozy, but presenting the same kind of intellectual puzzle as her fictional models and adorned, as such books once were, with wonderfully old-fashioned maps, diagrams, engravings, courtroom sketches and other illustrations.
Non-formalized (i.e., non state-space, non state-spacetheoretic) models such as physical, diagrammatic, material, historical, "remnant," and fictional models are ubiquitous across the sciences (e.g., Frigg and Hartmann 2012; for the biological sciences, see Hull 1975; Beatty 1980; Griesemodels90, 1991 a, b, 2013; Downesuch92; Richasds 1992; Winther 2006a, 2011; Leonelli 2008; Weisberg 2013).
They remain as fictional as the Andersons' puppet shows.
If it's as fictional as an alien robot movie, what's the problem?
They're as fictional as Sherlock Holmes or the Sasquatch.
Now, we know it was another ruse; she was as fictional as Alex.
Not so with fictional models.
What constraints are there to the construction of fictional models and how do we manipulate them?
New mechanists also argue that the covering law model fails to distinguish predictively adequate but fictional models from explanatory models.
In November 1996, Larter portrayed fictional model Allegra Coleman in an Esquire magazine hoax.
