Nancy Cartwright’s concepts of “science by pun”/“inference by pun,” “Ballung concepts” (what I call abstract nouns), and “precisification” relate to word abuse - sadly her criticisms usually presume causal models that make predictions, which is a lot to ask apparently
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I thought she was famous for arguing against causal models and for the view that all laws are constitutive with no fundamental ones?
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she’s criticizing causal models - but many items of bad science aren’t even causal
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