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20 maj 2020 · Idealization is ubiquitous in human cognition, and so is the inclination to be puzzled by it: what to make of ideal gas, infinitely large populations, homo economicus, perfectly just society, known to violate matters of fact?
20 wrz 2019 · Evaluation is an important component of an advanced essay. It requires the ability to look at facts, arguments and analysis, with a degree of critical distance. Evaluation involves: Looking at what other factors may affect the outcome.
22 sty 2019 · We introduce work on epistemic value to the debate surrounding idealizations and understanding, arguing that idealizations qua falsehoods confer only non-epistemic value to understanding. We argue for this claim by criticizing the leading accounts of how idealizations provide understanding.
28 lis 2012 · This paper aims (a) to provide characterizations of realism and instrumentalism that are philosophically interesting and applicable to economics; and (b) to defend instrumentalism against realism as a methodological stance in economics.
These analytical labels—ideal types, idealization, and so forth—relate to questions about the status of models and their construction that are sometimes evident, and sometimes lie below the surface, but always remain important in the historical discussions about economics as a science.
Deidealization is crucial for different kinds of attempts to apply models to the world by empirical use with statistics, in designing experiments, or in mak- — ing arguments about concrete events. Such attempts unquestionably involve deidealization.
1 sty 2013 · I argue that understanding idealization as a conceptual act that can be distinguished into three kinds: isolation, stabilization and decomposition is a promising way for making sense of many important characteristics of economic modeling.
