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| A. d’Abro - Philosophy Dictionary of Arguments | |||
| A. d’Abro (1901 – 1996), Armenian-American science historian and writer. His major works include The Evolution of Scientific Thought from Newton to Einstein (1927), Newtonian Mechanics (1934), and The Rise of the New Physics: Its Mathematical and Physical Theories (1939). His fields of specialization were history of physics, the philosophy of science, and the popularization of science.
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| Idealization: idealization is a simplification of theories for the purpose of generalization. A) Before starting an investigation in physics, e.g. the assumption of a mass point, i.e. a practical impossibility, which, however, simplifies the calculation and delivers correct results. B) Subsequently, for example, the smoothing of the course of a curve of measured values. See also Theories, measurements. _____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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| Cartwright, Nancy | Idealization | Cartwright | |
| d’Abro, A. | Idealization | d’Abro | |
| Feyerabend, Paul | Idealization | Feyerabend | |
| Putnam, Hilary | Idealization | Putnam | |
| Rawls, John | Idealization | Rawls | |
| Wittgenstein, Ludwig | Idealization | Wittgenstein | |
| Wright, Crispin | Idealization | Wright | |
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