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Comments on Borbone’s The Relevance of Models
Comments on Borbone’s The Relevance of Models

Author(s): Adolfo García de la Sienra
Subject(s): Philosophy, Logic
Published by: Filozofický ústav SAV
Keywords: Idealization; Leszek Nowak; Polish school of logic; Poznań School of Methodology.

Summary/Abstract: After a brief comment on the historical importance of the Polish School of Logic, actually the cradle of structuralist philosophy of science, I discuss a problem in the notion of idealization, which usually is seen as a mere dropping of nullifying assumptions in order to obtain a more general theory-element.

  • Issue Year: 30/2023
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 160-162
  • Page Count: 3
  • Language: English