Аналогията като метод за изграждане на модели в науката
The analogy as a method of building models in science

Author(s): Plamen Damyanov
Subject(s): Philosophy, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science
Published by: Axia Academic Publishers
Keywords: methodology; analogy; hydrodynamics; atomic physics; scientific models; mechanics
Summary/Abstract: Based on Azarya Polykarov’s ideas in the field of methodology of science, the author presents analogy as one of the epistemological methods. The development of analogy is described as a heuristic method of knowledge from antiquity to present with a focus on the fields of natural sciences such as mathematics, mechanics, particle physics and cosmology. Henceforth sre analyzed the possibilities and the limitations of this method for building life-sized models in certain scientific fields, such as atomic physics, classical mechanics, hydrodynamics, quantum mechanics and space physics.

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