The Method of Relevant Variables and Idealization

• Authors: Leszek Nowak

Title variants

PL

Metoda zmiennych relewantnych a idealizacja

EN

The Method of Relevant Variables and Idealization

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

The paper deals with the L.J.Cohen's method of relevant variables, which is supposed to be a reconstruction of idealization in science. The author is going to show that Cohen's method is not a method of idealization, but a certain similar procedure. Nevertheless, the method of relevant variables can be paraphrased as the method of normalization and specification. This paraphrase allows the idealization approach to science better to handle the complexity of empirical research in science.

• Publisher: University of Warsaw, Institute of Philosophy
• Journal: Filozofia Nauki
• Year: 1993
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 67-88

Dates

published

1993-03-01

Contributors

author

Leszek Nowak