Adaptations of Ideas from Ronald Giere
The diagrams below show changes I made when adapting a basic Giere-Box by adding colors (yellow for mental, green for physical, yellow-green for mental-and-physical), plus changing sides (moving "mental experimenting" from right to left, because mental occurs first in a PREdiction) and terms (Real World → System, Data → Observations, Model → System-Model, and adding terms like Reality Check, Predictive Accuracy, Mental Experiment, Physical Experiment, actualize, ...), and descriptions.
The third diagram, for Design Process, shows adaptations I made when generalizing my model of Science Process into Design Process with cycles in which we GENERATE-and-EVALUATE by using Reality Checks and two kinds of Quality Checks.
Giere, basic box:
Rusbult, Reality Checks:
Rusbult, Design Process:
