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Is All Abstracting Idealizing?
The Reasoner 2 (4):4-5 (2008)
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I defend a distinction between abstraction and idealization. Idealizations distort; abstractions do not.Author's Profile
Nicholaos Jones
University of Alabama, Huntsville
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Idealizing, Abstracting, and Semantic Dispositionalism.Adam C. Podlaskowski & Nicholaos J. Jones - 2010 - European Journal of Philosophy 20 (1):166-178.
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