Credible Worlds, Capacities and Mechanisms

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Incredible Worlds, Credible Results (2009, background): “The set of target systems need not be fully specified or even suggested in advance, and the stories that often accompany models could be seen as selling points for their inferential abilities (cf. Sugden 2009).”
Buyer beware: robustness analyses in economics and biology (2011, background): “claims about credible worlds ( Sugden 2000, 2009 ).”
If No Capacities Then No Credible Worlds. But Can Models Reveal Capacities? (2009, background): “(Sugden 2009, section 1) Taking a clue from MSP' s abstract, as well as from the structure of the model in the paper, I would instead have taken the lesson of the Hawk-Dove model in the MSP paper to be: 'Uncorrelated asymmetries cause contests to be settled without escalation', where the settling…”