Clarifying matters of (meta-) modeling: an author’s reply

In his article “More Matters on (Meta-)Modelling— Remarks on Thomas Kuhne’s ‘matters’ ” [2] Wolfgang Hesse addresses some of the issues I have raised in my article “Matters of (Meta-) Modeling” [1] and I very much welcome his idea of stirring up a constructive debate about some important fundamentals of modeling. In this response I follow up the discussion started by [2] by focusing on areas of disagreement, in particular pointing out where my statements in [1] have been interpreted in a way I did not intend. Ideally, the following clarifications will thus aid the understanding of the issues I have originally addressed in [1] and continue the constructive debate started in [2].