Index

Page numbers in bold denote figures.

abstraction 19–21, 44, 101, 102, 199

accuracy 234

Achinstein, P. 66

addiction 189–91, 196

Afriat, S. 163–4

Ainslie, G. 196, 197

Akerlof, G.A. 92, 265–6

altruism 113–14

analogical models 67; inferences from 77

analogy 69–71, 75, 76

Andreoni, J. 119, 122

anti-realism 140, 141–2, 148, 223, 245

applicability assumptions 46–7, 48, 49, 50, 51–2

approximate truth 70

approximation 232–5

Ariely, D. 120, 123, 124, 127–8

Aristotle 242

Arrow, K. 86, 114, 126

assertions 46

assumptions: as if 25; early-step 24, 47, 50–1; false 23–4, 44, 57–8, 246; generative 24; idealizing 54–5; rationality 74; realism of 1; realistic 55; relaxing 57; temporality of 24; tractability 24, 51, 52, 53–5, 60, 108, 266–7; unrealistic

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