Abstract
Examined are both instrumentalist and essentialist approaches to justifying of the need for theoretical abstractions in science, and also complexity and diversity of such abstractions as applied to empirical reality is shown. Substantiated is the necessity of introducing of interpretative proposals in science.
Keywords
- theoretical abstractions
- empirical level of science
- theoretical level og science
- interpretative proposals
- idealization
- productive imagination
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