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    Challenges→Milton Friedman and like-minded economists argue for predictive goals in economics for policy reasons, not to resolve epistemological puzzles about unobservables.

    If a framework's justification implicitly relies on claims about what theoretical posits can legitimately do, it is engaged in epistemology whether or not that was the stated intent.

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    Implicitly(describing a way the universe might be called 'God' without saying it outright)
    Suggested or contained within something without being directly stated or obvious.
    Stated intent(as used in logical analysis)
    What someone openly says they meant to do or accomplish, as opposed to what they actually accomplish unintentionally.
    Theoretical posits(referring to abstract objects like numbers in math)
    Things that scientists or mathematicians assume exist or propose as explanations, even though we can't directly observe them.
    epistemology(Contrasted with purely descriptive scientific inquiry)
    A normative enterprise that tells us how we ought to reason from evidence and how we ought to justify our beliefs, as distinct from merely describing how we do reason or justify beliefs

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    framework(Carnap's philosophy of language and logic)
    A structured system of rules or language that must be in place for rational discourse to be possible.
    justification(Third condition of the tripartite account of knowledge)
    The condition on a knower's belief that excludes mere luck — the belief must be held in a way that is appropriate or warranted, not merely accidentally correct.

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