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20 K. Aizawa and C. Gillett on. Let us therefore push on to explore the nature of the new discussions that consequently ensue. Part 3: Pressing Meta-Methodological Issues: Types of Account, Project, Assessment and Meta-Justification Our work in the last section established that we are indeed in a new set of debates over verticality, but also suggested that there are a number of distinct projects to be pursued, and being pursued, using V-frameworks. Sorting out these different projects, and hence the ways in which any V-framework may be assessed or regard to such work, are a few of the pressing issues that we address in this section.

Thus, to fill out the account, we must design constraints capable of distinguishing the good mechanistic models—those that provide adequate explanations—from those that fall explanatorily short. 3 While the first model, called here the Standard Model, is explanatorily acceptable—based as it is on textbook 2 Mechanists also judge unexplanatory phenomenological models—those that don’t purport to describe the inner workings of the system at issue—as well as mechanistic models that are false (even allowing for limited idealization) of the systems they purport to describe.

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