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Collin Rice, "Leveraging Distortions: Explanation, Idealization, and Universality in Science" (MIT Press, 2021)

New Books in Philosophy

CHAPTER

The Theory of Distortion

The title of the book is ging distortions. I like to use distortion simply because i actually think that leaving things out often distorts or misrepresents the world in various way. And so it's not just deliberately misrepresenting a thing that can distort it. Often it's a leaving out the other things that it's related to, an introduce distortion to. So instead of saying silent about it, we actually actively make a decision.

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