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

New Books in Philosophy

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The Irrelevance of Things That Might Have Been Relevant

There's a lot of irrelevant stuff that, you know, would not be explanatory, i correct. So there have to be some a and i do also say in the book that i think irrelevance alone isn't enough to really explain. But that context about what we believe would have been relevant or sort of surprised is irrelevant plays an important well for picking out information that will actually contribute rather jus distract s.

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