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On a paradox of truth, or how not to obscure the issue of whether explanatory models can be true
Journal of Economic Methodology 20 (3):268 - 279 (2013)
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It is argued that Reiss (2012) fails to refute attempts to resolve the paradox of false explanatory models. His article fails to provide an articulate conception of what exactly the presumed paradox is, it suffers from uncontrolled ambiguities and inconsistencies, and it fails to adequately address accounts of economic models that might contribute to reconciling their apparent falsehood and explanatoriness. Some details in my account of how apparently false models may explain are clarifiedAuthor's Profile
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