Hindriks, Frank - In: Journal of Economic Methodology 13 (2006) 4, pp. 401-423
-order assumptions be true. I go on to introduce the notion of a tractability assumption, which is a second-order assumption according to … which a first-order assumption is imposed in order to make a particular problem tractable. It is argued that a realist will … want to relax a first-order assumption imposed for reasons of tractability as such assumptions are not even approximately …