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I'm not very familiar with this concept, so the following is a problem I can not fix on my own. If someone could help, that would be great. Regard the following text in the article: due to the way the model eschews any account of causality, modelling, or simplification, it is no longer accepted as dogma. The word "modelling" is linked to a disambiguation page. I don't really know what type of modelling is being referred to here, so if someone could pick an article from the disambiguation page, and fix this link to go directly to that article, that would be much better. Schwael 16:16, 28 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]



"The D-N model is known by many names, including the covering law model..." This statement is not accurate. According to Hempel (Philosophy of Natural Science, Chapter 5) the D-N model is only one version of the Covering Law Model, the other version being the Inductive-Statistical model.