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Idealizations and Understanding: Much Ado About Nothing?
Australasian Journal of Philosophy 97 (4):673-689 (2019)
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Because idealizations frequently advance scientific understanding, many claim that falsehoods play an epistemic role. In this paper, we argue that these positions greatly overstate idealiza...Author Profiles
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