Home Figure 05: Functions of models: input - processing - output

 

Categorization by functions of models and cognate words in eight fields

 

Models are material, graphic or mental instruments (tool, aid, mediator, medium) of/ for:

 

 

„input“

„processing“

„output“

gain knowledge

organize knowledge

spread knowledge

Imitate objects

amend objects

express ideas

use objects

organize things

present products

delight oneself

entertain people

befool people

practice

record events

multiply objects

follow rules

remember events

guide procedures

realize drafts

apply devices or procedures

shape things

orientate oneself

train

forecast

 

 

 

 

„Input“

 

„Processing“

„Output“

gain knowledge, insight and understanding

study phenomena or objects

experimental models,

simulation models

heuristic models,

exploratory models

explanatory models,

theoretic models

explore possibilities

predictive models

anticipatory models

organize knowledge

categories, taxonomies

order, compare

spread knowledge, instruction

worlds of learning

demonstration models, illustration models

informative models, instructive models

didactic models, training models

imitation

imitate objects

imitate behavior

imitate idols

amend, revise

amend objects

amend theories

expression, presentation, propaganda

expression of ideas, belifs

expression of sentiments, dreams

develop alternatives

draft plans, objects

argumentative framework

gain funding

win public support

patent application

demonstrate devotion

display products

use

prostheses

dummies

organize things

taxonomy

present products

Fashion model

Decorative model

presentation of samples, specimen

presentation of clothes, shoes, hairstyles

delight, enjoy

art

play, show

game

playground

ornament

garnish, trim

entertain

Literature

Theatre

movies

act

plot

fiction

media

befool, bluff, cheat

create other worlds

small scale models in movies

replica

scenery, trompe l’oeuil

„life at second hand“

Illusion

„virtual reality“

 

practice, exercise, learn

gain accomplishments, skills

train faculties

learn

record, preserve

collect

register, record

preserve

multiplying

multiply extraordinary objects

multiplying standardised objects

follow, carry out

rules

schemata

pattern

remember

events

persons

guiding, ruling

orientation

guidelines

prescriptions, procedures

regulate

 

realize drafts

architecture

engineering

 

application, practice, operation

control of technical or industrial processes

precise measuring and constructing

indication

test, variation and optimization

verification, validation

decision making, planning

projecting, engineering, construction

prognostication

control of behavior

intervention

move

handicraft

magical rituals

shape, form, transform

moulds for cast

patterns for shaping institutions, structures

patterns for shaping objects, products

fashioning into a particular character

modulation

orientate oneself

maps

signs

pictograms

train

 

forecast

processes

behavoir

results (of polls)

costs

amount of resources

weather

movements of celestial objects

 

 



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