Idealized and perspectival representations: some reasons for making a distinction

DOI10.1007/S11229-013-0371-4zbMATH Open1302.03032OpenAlexW1988502893MaRDI QIDQ484974FDOQ484974

Authors: Alexander Rueger 

Publication date: 8 January 2015

Published in: Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-013-0371-4

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zbMATH Keywords

perturbation theorysingular limitsmodeling in physicsscientific representation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of mathematical modeling (00A71) Physics (00A79) Logic in the philosophy of science (03A10)

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