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“To present as better than in reality; to attribute ideal properties”: this is the explanation of the word ‘idealization’ found in the Reference Dictionary of the Russian Language. The term ‘idealization’ (Germ.: Idealisierung. Fr.: idéalisation) is quite widely used in both scientific and literary publications.
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Definition through abstraction’ is another name for abstraction of identity. In the article mentioned above, Janovskaja writes: “These ‘definitions’ do not establish and, properly speaking, do not even define any new object but simply select out already existing general properties.” This is why we talk about so-called definitions through abstraction.
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Subbotin, A.L. (1970). Idealization as a Method of Scientific Knowledge. In: Tavanec, P.V. (eds) Problems of the Logic of Scientific Knowledge. Synthese Library, vol 25. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3393-0_9
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