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This answer is equivocal. A model represents reality and
serves to describe
that reality and to represent relationships
among events in that reality. A good
model has point-to-point
correspondence with reality; that is, the model
contains
elements that represent actual real events. Given that, our
manipulation of a model can suggest to us how phenomena
actually work in the
real world. It does not tell us so with certainty,
and anything the model
suggests must be verified by empirical research.
But the model can suggest how
events might play out in reality. It is up
to the scientist to test to see if
the predictions of the model are accurate.