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<noinclude>{{Subpages}}</noinclude>A philosophical position that all we can know about "objective reality" consists of networks of world pictures that explain observations by connecting them to conceptual models.
<noinclude>{{Subpages}}</noinclude>A philosophical position that all we can know about reality consists of networks of ''world pictures'' that explain ''observations'' by connecting them by ''rules'' to concepts defined in ''models''.

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A definition or brief description of Model-dependent realism.

A philosophical position that all we can know about reality consists of networks of world pictures that explain observations by connecting them by rules to concepts defined in models.