If assumptions were genuinely flawed, the causal pathway to correct conclusions becomes mysterious, suggesting either assumptions were sounder or conclusions less determinate than claimed.

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assumptions(Philosophy of economics, methodology of positive economics): In Friedman's usage, includes central economic generalizations (e.g., 'Firms attempt to maximize profits'), not merely background simplifying conditions
causal pathway(in action theory): The chain of events that directly connects a person's beliefs and desires to their actual behavior—basically the cause-and-effect route from thought to action.
determinate(Contrasted with determinables; taken to be independently posited in the causal/ontological economy): A maximally specific instance of a determinable property (e.g., scarlet as a determinate of red)
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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