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The task of this chapter will be to outline the foundations of the idealizational philosophy of science as it has been presented by one of the main representatives of the Poznań School, Leszek Nowak. I shall proceed by juxtaposing his works (1971; 1972; 1974; 1977; 1980; 1985) with physical theories and Marx’s economical works. This will enable me to identify the significant benefits as well as the limitations of this trend in the contemporary philosophy of science.
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This problem will be scrutinized in subchapters 4.2 and then in chapter eight, where I analyze the relation of a natural kind to its own essence.
Hegel’s thoughts, 160years before Mackie, on the purification of a scientific law will be analyzed in subchapter 11.1.
They are often called “phenomenological laws” in a philosophical tradition which never arrived at a conceptual distinction between appearances and manifestations.
The character of these singular events will be scrutinized more closely in subchapter 4.1.
That is why acceleration in (1.7) really comes out as g (2), in (1.8) but still only as g; that is why acceleration in (1.4) is, as a matter of fact, g (2), the scientific law involving nine, not eight, idealizations. My formulation (1.4) does not reveal the scientific law expressed by (1.6) as its background.
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Hanzel, I. (1999). The Idealizational Law of Essence. In: The Concept of Scientific Law in the Philosophy of Science and Epistemology. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 208. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3265-9_3
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