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MODELS AND THE REQUIREMENT TO DE-IDEALIZE (pages 263-283)

Gareth FULLER ABSTRACT: It is commonly accepted that scientific models include many misrepresentations of their real-world target. One type of misrepresentation is that of an “idealizing assumption”. An idealizing assumption is a modeling assumption that omits some factor of the real-world target that is known or presumed of being causally relevant to the phenomenon of interest. Some find the inclusion …

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