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This paper aims at a logical reconstruction of some different approaches to modeling processes of self-organization in the social sciences, and it uses these approaches as examples which are to show that computer simulation supports structuralist reconstruction of theories if it is done in a certain way. In contrast especially to Troitzsch (1992) we do not concentrate on a specific theory of attitude change although we shall take the axiomatizations carried out there as but one example of a theory of self-organization.
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Troitzsch, K.G. (1996). Simulation and Structuralism. In: Hegselmann, R., Mueller, U., Troitzsch, K.G. (eds) Modelling and Simulation in the Social Sciences from the Philosophy of Science Point of View. Theory and Decision Library, vol 23. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8686-3_11
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