Because the basic idea of chaos theory is that there aren't any "models" as such—there aren't guaranteed forms, but rather patterns of change in development.

因为混沌理论的基本观点是这样的“模型”不存在——不存在确定的形式，只有发展变化中的模式。

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In the 1990s, many economists began to look at chaos theory as a way of providing models for forecasting.

上世纪90年代，许多经济学家开始将混沌理论视为一种提供预测模型的方法。

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The broad theory that we develop in this book, and the specific models, incorporate basic assumptions that are at variance with those of the prevailing orthodox theory of firm and industry behavior.

我们在本书中推出的广义理论和具体模型，都包含着与那些主流正统的企业和产业行为理论不一样的基本假设。

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Extra dimensions are of interest because string theory, a class of mathematical models based on quantum theory that seeks to describe reality in the most fundamental way, requires that there be at least six of them, maybe more.

ECONOMIST: Cosmology

The book provides practical methods for supporting improved participatory processes, including the application of theory and models to aid decision-making.

UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

In theory, climate models should help tease out which of these indirect effects is playing the biggest role, and also say how much of the decline in ice cover can be assigned to natural variability and how much to feedback loops in which a little warming leads to a lot more.

ECONOMIST: Summer ice in the Arctic Ocean is vanishing rapidly