Computational modelling is merging experimentation and theory into one method

Evidence

Recently, in this age of computers being applied everywhere, the three approaches of experimentation, modelling, and theory formation have started to merge and integrate. Experiments are often carried out using computational models before the final validation against practice. The difference between theory and computational models is also becoming less distinctive, since advanced computer models, including artificial intelligence and logic programming, may enable high-level theoretical inference. — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 104

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the ‘mature scientific instruments’ idea in Kuhn and to how Deep Listening / sound studies method merges modes of knowledge production.