Here is presented for the first time a comprehensive review and analysis of the several roles played by idealization procedures in the logic, mathematics and mo

Here is presented for the first time a comprehensive review and analysis of the several roles played by idealization procedures in the logic, mathematics and mo

Discussions about abstraction are so important and so profound that this topic can hardly be neglected. It has inevitably cropped up again in various periods of

Contents: Preface. - Introduction. - Science as a caricature of reality. - Three methodological revolutions. - The method of idealization. - Explanations and ap

Science is the study of our world, as it is in its messy reality. Nonetheless, science requires idealization to function—if we are to attempt to understand th