Idealization, Abduction, and Progressive Scientific Change

Idealization, Abduction, and Progressive Scientific Change

After a brief comparison of Aliseda's account with different approaches to abductive reasoning, I try to relate abduction, understood in terms like those of Aliseda, to another concept which also occupies a very important role in scientific change: idealization. In particular, I try to reveal s...

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Veröffentlicht in:Theoria (Madrid, Spain) Spain), 2009-12, Vol.22 (3), p.331-338
1. Verfasser: De Donato-Rodríguez, Xavier
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Sprache:eng
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abduction, non-monotonic reasoning, idealization, approximation, Kepler-Newton case, empirical progress, scientific change
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Zusammenfassung:After a brief comparison of Aliseda's account with different approaches to abductive reasoning, I try to relate abduction, understood in terms like those of Aliseda, to another concept which also occupies a very important role in scientific change: idealization. In particular, I try to reveal some interesting aspects related to notions like approximation and empirical progress.
ISSN:0495-4548
2171-679X
DOI:10.1387/theoria.454