Bert hamminga    Control questions on   Idealisation and Concretisation       000213

1. What does it mean to say that a model is an idealisation?
2. What is the main idealising assumption of Galileo's law of falling bodies?
3. What is concretisation?
4. How should the theory of falling be concretised?
5. What are the main idealising assumptions of the supply and demand model?
6. How should the theory explaining market prices and quantities traded be concretised?