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Critically analyse application of models in Geography.

  • UPSC 2014
  • Models, Theories and Laws

A model is an idealised, structured and selective representation of reality — in Skilling's phrase “a theory, a law, a hypothesis or a structured idea”, and in Young and Petch's blunter formulation, “any device or mechanism which generates a prediction”.

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