Summary. It is common knowledge that there is an essential methodological distinction in dealing with diagnosis in Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM) and in Modern Medicine(MM). For a long time, understanding the diagnosis in TCM has been quite disregarded. The concept of model-based reasoning can help us to get a new and clearer understanding of the cognitive process involved with TCM. In the first part of this paper I will present the most common models coming from the theory of TCM. In the second I will describe how these models are applied. Finally, I will discuss from a methodological point of view the significance of model-based reasoning in the diagnosis of TCM.
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Wang, Z. (2007). Model-Based Reasoning and Diagnosis in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). In: Magnani, L., Li, P. (eds) Model-Based Reasoning in Science, Technology, and Medicine. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 64. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71986-1_15
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