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work_a4d6ytjoenbxlfin6gaxfyyzkq	Alan C. Love	The Idealization of Causation in Mechanistic Explanation	2015	13	.pdf	application/pdf	5296	357	40	suggest that explanatory practices within the mechanistic tradition share commonalities with model-based approaches prevalent in population biology. For instance, it has been claimed that the "openendedness" of mechanistic explanations, which are not limited to linguistic representations and may involve diagrams or simulations, constitutes a substantial advantage over deductive-nomological inferences (Bechtel and Abrahamsen The practice of abstracting and idealizing in mechanistic explanations is unsurprising. of this principle is that we would not expect features that play a central explanatory role to be abstracted away or distorted in a mechanistic description. The idealization of causal relations demonstrates that these models do not depict how the mechanism actually works. Multiple-model idealization has many parallels with the above strategy of relaxing the actuality criterion for mechanistic descriptions. precise explanation of entities and causal processes that have been misrepresented, black-boxed, or treated as placeholders in the original mechanism description requires new models that will contain different abstractions and idealizations.	./cache/work_a4d6ytjoenbxlfin6gaxfyyzkq.pdf	./txt/work_a4d6ytjoenbxlfin6gaxfyyzkq.txt