Rappaport, Steven - In: Journal of Economic Methodology 3 (1996) 2, pp. 215-236
criticism by saying that the unrealistic assumptions of economics result from abstraction from unimportant details, and … abstraction is necessary for knowledge of a complex real world. So, far from unrealistic assumptions detracting from the epistemic … Defense'. After clarifying abstraction, unrealistic assumptions and kindred notions, I show that the Abstractionist Defense …