Disadvantages Of Using Model Analysis

“Assess the advantages and disadvantages of using models to produce knowledge of the world.”

KQ: To what extent does using models help us understand knowledge of the world?

If we assess the use of models to produce knowledge of the world, then the assessment of all models are to help justify our understandings, but to what extent does using models help us understand knowledge of the world? There is hardly any doubt as to whether models provide a level of usefulness, but the problem arises from the information that is left out of models because they are simplifications. The purpose of a model is to represent various facets of an object of system, hence the emphasis of various implies that it doesn’t give a full description, providing a limitation

The Demand and Supply model can help explain global phenomena like the global equilibrium price for gold. The way the model works is that if there is a increase in demand with a relative decrease in supply, then prices will increase and vice vera. This demonstrates how reason can be used as a way of knowing to explain how the global equilibrium price will keep rising relative to the decreasing supply of gold. Although when analysing supply and demand it must be taken into account that they are independent of each other which can be seen as a limitation of the model. As economics is a subject explored through the human sciences, the knowledge gained from economic models can be seen as justifiable when attempting to produce knowledge of the world. Although the counter-claim argument looks at the disadvantages of using models to produce knowledge of the world due to their

The natural sciences are quite unique to this premise as they don’t have any level of bias associated and are purely based on factual research. To examine the limitations of scientific models, the precession of Mercury will be used. The precession of Mercury is an interesting phenomena, as the precession of the orbits of other planets is accounted for by Newton's laws of motion. As astronomers charted the progress of the planets, they conformed agreeably to predictions based on those laws of motion. All except one. Mercury's orbit made its round faster than predicted. It didn't race ahead. The precession was 93 percent accounted for, but no one could adequately explain that last seven percent. Because Newton’s laws of motion couldn’t be used to explain the precession of Mercury, Einstein suggested the theory of relativity, Einstein showed that mass warps space. This warping didn't noticeably affect planets far from the sun, but Mercury was so close that its strange precession could be explained by relativity. This shows that through reason supplemented by Einstein, the limitation involved with Newton’s law of motion, illustrated how the precession of Mercury can only be explained through Einstein’s theory of