Niekoľko poznámok k používaniu teoretických modelov v histórii prírodných vied.

Every scientific attempt to explain nature includes a model that usually means a purposely simplified construct built with the aim to understand a certain particular phenomenon. In the presented paper, we focus on theoretical models that represent new mental constructions combining the approach of analogy with familiar and creative imagination in the area of inventing of new things. Therefore, the models are openended, extensible and suggestive of new hypotheses. Critical realism recognizes that models are selective; they only allow us to deal with a limited circle of aspects. Such models are neither pictures of reality nor useful fiction; they are partial and inadequate ways of imagining of what is not observable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]