Is All Abstracting Idealizing?

The Reasoner 2 (4):4-5 (2008)
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I defend a distinction between abstraction and idealization. Idealizations distort; abstractions do not.

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Nicholaos Jones
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Abstraction vs. Idealization.S. Ducheyne - 2007 - The Reasoner 1 (5):9-10.

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