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In this paper, I first argue against various attempts to justify idealizations in scientific models that explain by showing that they are harmless and isolable distortions of irrelevant features. In… Click to show full abstract
In this paper, I first argue against various attempts to justify idealizations in scientific models that explain by showing that they are harmless and isolable distortions of irrelevant features. In response, I propose a view in which idealized models are characterized as providing holistically distorted representations of their target system(s). I then suggest an alternative way that idealized modeling can be justified by appealing to universality.
Keywords:
holistic distortions;
idealized models;
universality;
models holistic;
distortions universality
Journal Title: Synthese
Year Published: 2017
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Journal Title: Synthese
Year Published: 2017
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