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Overextending Partial Structures: Idealization and Abstraction.

The partial structures program of da Costa, French and others offers a unified framework within which to handle a wide range of issues central to contemporary philosophy of science. I argue that the program is inadequately equipped to account for simple cases where idealizations are used to construc...

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Publicado en:Philosophy of Science Vol. 72; no. 5; pp. 1248 - 1260
Autor principal: Pincock, Christopher
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Cambridge University Press Dec2005
Materias:
Philosophy & science
Mathematical models
Philosophy of science
Mathematics
Abstract thought
Logic
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