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Reply to ‘The emergence of a new kind of relativism in environmental modelling: a commentary’ by P. Baveye.

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Reply to ‘The emergence of a new kind of relativism in environmental modelling: a commentary’ by P. Baveye. / Beven, Keith J.
In: Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Vol. 460, No. 2047, 08.07.2004, p. 2147-2151.

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Beven, KJ 2004, 'Reply to ‘The emergence of a new kind of relativism in environmental modelling: a commentary’ by P. Baveye.', Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, vol. 460, no. 2047, pp. 2147-2151. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2003.1257

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Beven, K. J. (2004). Reply to ‘The emergence of a new kind of relativism in environmental modelling: a commentary’ by P. Baveye. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 460(2047), 2147-2151. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2003.1257

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Beven KJ. Reply to ‘The emergence of a new kind of relativism in environmental modelling: a commentary’ by P. Baveye. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 2004 Jul 8;460(2047):2147-2151. doi: 10.1098/rspa.2003.1257

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Beven, Keith J. / Reply to ‘The emergence of a new kind of relativism in environmental modelling: a commentary’ by P. Baveye. In: Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 2004 ; Vol. 460, No. 2047. pp. 2147-2151.

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abstract = "This article is a response to a comment by Baveye in which he invites me to expand on the use of the word relativism in the context of environmental models. Limitations to a classical statistical approach to model (as realist hypothesis) falsification are discussed. It is concluded that environmental modelling must necessarily be operator dependent and relativist, even while being conducted in a context of pragmatic realism.",
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