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Philosophy of science

deliberately simplifying or distorting a model of a system to make it tractable, then correcting toward reality.

In philosophy of science, idealization refers to deliberately simplifying or distorting a model of a system to make it tractable, then correcting toward reality. This meaning comes from McMullin (1985) in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A.[1]

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McMullin, E. (1985). Galilean idealization. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 16(3), 247-273. https://doi.org/10.1016/0039-3681(85)90003-2

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