Approximation

When Those With Privacy Concerns Show Stronger In-Group Favoritism: Using Personal Information From In-Group and Out-Group Members to Identify Terrorist Threats

“…The scope of the tested hypotheses and their intended applications (Balzer et al, 1989) concerns scenarios where potential terrorist threats unambiguously connect to a country and where the access to personal information is clearly referring to one’s own government doing the accessing. Support for counter-terrorism efforts by collecting personal information with probabilistic computing may also depend on the level of trust an individual has toward both the agent that is collecting the data and those who are benefitting from the efforts.…”

Idealización y objetos abstractos en ciencia económica: un comentario a la teoría estructuralista de Adolfo García de la Sienra

“…La idealización no es un proceso de construcción de modelos únicamente, es también un proceso mental (y un método) que puede aplicarse a muchos niveles diferentes de la actividad científica, incluyendo las relaciones interteóricas. De hecho, en Balzer, Moulines, y Sneed (1987) es recurrente encontrar expresiones como "elemento-teórico idealizado", "red teórica idealizada", "aserción empírica idealizada", etc., con la convicción de parte de los autores de que los elementos-teóricos, etc., que están definiendo contienen y presuponen idealizaciones y aproximaciones diversas. Su propia reconstrucción es una reconstrucción idealizada (como seguramente no podría ser de otro modo).…”

Quasi-truth and defective knowledge in science: a critical examination

“…al. [2] and also Krause and Arenhart [17] for details on different takes on the semantic view). These structures, on their turn, are total, not partial, in the sense that properties classify each entity as either having such property or as not having it (and the same holds for relation); no openness or incompleteness allowed.…”