ABSTRACT
Almost by definition, models violate the whole truth. Models also appear to involve false elements that violate nothing-but-the-truth. At the same time, good models are often expected somehow to yield true information about some real features of the world—not just true predictions but also true representations of important dependencies and mechanisms in some target domains. I have pursued the idea of models possibly being true more directly elsewhere (e.g., Mäki 1992, 1994, 2009b, 2009c, 2011).
