Mechanism Models as Necessary Truths

Ingvar Johansson

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Mechanism Models as Necessary Truths

In Mario Augusto Bunge, Michael R. Matthews, Guillermo M. Denegri, Eduardo L. Ortiz, Heinz W. Droste, Alberto Cordero, Pierre Deleporte, María Manzano, Manuel Crescencio Moreno, Dominique Raynaud, Íñigo Ongay de Felipe, Nicholas Rescher, Richard T. W. Arthur, Rögnvaldur D. Ingthorsson, Evandro Agazzi, Ingvar Johansson, Joseph Agassi, Nimrod Bar-Am, Alberto Cupani, Gustavo E. Romero, Andrés Rivadulla, Art Hobson, Olival Freire Junior, Peter Slezak, Ignacio Morgado-Bernal, Marta Crivos, Leonardo Ivarola, Andreas Pickel, Russell Blackford, Michael Kary, A. Z. Obiedat, Carolina I. García Curilaf, Rafael González del Solar, Luis Marone, Javier Lopez de Casenave, Francisco Yannarella, Mauro A. E. Chaparro, José Geiser Villavicencio- Pulido, Martín Orensanz, Jean-Pierre Marquis, Reinhard Kahle, Ibrahim A. Halloun, José María Gil, Omar Ahmad, Byron Kaldis, Marc Silberstein, Carolina I. García Curilaf, Rafael González del Solar, Javier Lopez de Casenave, Íñigo Ongay de Felipe & Villavicencio-Pulid (eds.), Mario Bunge: A Centenary Festschrift. Springer Verlag. pp. 241-262 (2019)

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	author = {Ingvar Johansson},
	booktitle = {Mario Bunge: A Centenary Festschrift},
	editor = {Mario Augusto Bunge and Michael R. Matthews and Guillermo M. Denegri and Eduardo L. Ortiz and Heinz W. Droste and Alberto Cordero and Pierre Deleporte and Mar\'{i}a Manzano and Manuel Crescencio Moreno and Dominique Raynaud and \'{I}~{n}igo Ongay de Felipe and Nicholas Rescher and Richard T. W. Arthur and R\"{o}gnvaldur D. Ingthorsson and Evandro Agazzi and Ingvar Johansson and Joseph Agassi and Nimrod Bar{-}Am and Alberto Cupani and Gustavo E. Romero and Andr\'{e}s Rivadulla and Art Hobson and Olival Freire Junior and Peter Slezak and Ignacio Morgado{-}Bernal and Marta Crivos and Leonardo Ivarola and Andreas Pickel and Russell Blackford and Michael Kary and A. Z. Obiedat and Carolina I. Garc\'{i}a Curilaf and Rafael Gonz\'{a}lez del Solar and Luis Marone and Javier Lopez de Casenave and Francisco Yannarella and Mauro A. E. Chaparro and Jos\'e Geiser Villavicencio{-} Pulido and Mart\'{i}n Orensanz and Jean{-}Pierre Marquis and Reinhard Kahle and Ibrahim A. Halloun and Jos\'e Mar\'{i}a Gil and Omar Ahmad and Byron Kaldis and Marc Silberstein and Carolina I. Garc\'{i}a Curilaf and Rafael Gonz\'{a}lez del Solar and Javier Lopez de Casenave and \'{I}~{n}igo Ongay de Felipe and Villavicencio{-}Pulid},
	pages = {241--262},
	publisher = {Springer Verlag},
	title = {Mechanism Models as Necessary Truths},
	year = {2019}
}

Johansson, Ingvar (2019). Mechanism Models as Necessary Truths. In Mario Augusto Bunge, Michael R. Matthews, Guillermo M. Denegri, Eduardo L. Ortiz, Heinz W. Droste, Alberto Cordero, Pierre Deleporte, María Manzano, Manuel Crescencio Moreno, Dominique Raynaud, Íñigo Ongay de Felipe, Nicholas Rescher, Richard T. W. Arthur, Rögnvaldur D. Ingthorsson, Evandro Agazzi, Ingvar Johansson, Joseph Agassi, Nimrod Bar-Am, Alberto Cupani, Gustavo E. Romero, Andrés Rivadulla, Art Hobson, Olival Freire Junior, Peter Slezak, Ignacio Morgado-Bernal, Marta Crivos, Leonardo Ivarola, Andreas Pickel, Russell Blackford, Michael Kary, A. Z. Obiedat, Carolina I. García Curilaf, Rafael González del Solar, Luis Marone, Javier Lopez de Casenave, Francisco Yannarella, Mauro A. E. Chaparro, José Geiser Villavicencio- Pulido, Martín Orensanz, Jean-Pierre Marquis, Reinhard Kahle, Ibrahim A. Halloun, José María Gil, Omar Ahmad, Byron Kaldis, Marc Silberstein, Carolina I. García Curilaf, Rafael González del Solar, Javier Lopez de Casenave, Íñigo Ongay de Felipe & Villavicencio-Pulid (eds.), Mario Bunge: A Centenary Festschrift. Springer Verlag. pp. 241-262.

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The paper argues that there is a fruitful analogy to be made between classic pre-analytic Euclidean geometry and a certain kind of mechanism models, called ideal mechanisms. Both supply necessary truths. Bunge is of the opinion that pure mathematics is about fictions, but that mathematics nonetheless is useful in science and technology because we can go “to reality through fictions.” Similarly, the paper claims that ideal mechanisms are useful because we can go to real mechanisms through the fictions of ideal mechanisms. The view put forward takes it for granted that two important distinctions concerned with the classification of fictions can be made. One is between ideal and non-ideal fictions, and the other between social and non-social fictions. Pure numbers, purely geometric figures, and ideal mechanisms are claimed to be ideal and social fictions.

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Mario Bunge (1919–2020): Conjoining Philosophy of Science and Scientific Philosophy.Martin Mahner - 2021 - Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 52 (1):3-23.

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