Lehtinen, Aki - In: Journal of Economic Methodology 20 (2013) 2, pp. 184-205
As-if locutions are used (a) in order to indicate that an inaccurate or unrealistic assumption is being made because some inaccuracy or unrealisticness is negligible. This kind of claim has two sub-cases. (a<sub>1</sub>) The as-if locution is used to indicate that the as-if claim in itself is inaccurate...