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work_cyl5uoef4bgzjcy6p3weg5qirq	Robert W. Batterman	Response to Belot's "Whose Devil? Which Details?"*	2005	10	.pdf	application/pdf	3539	226	57	less fundamental "theories emeritus" by singular asymptotic limits, will very in the book in part to demonstrate how very different the kind of explanation required for an understanding of various universal features of, say, the The nature of this asymptotic explanation is really quite different (as Belot's extended technical discussion ably demonstrates) from the "standard" Furthermore, it seems fair to say that Belot endorses the idea that explanation often does involve asymptotic analysis and that, in particular, such As Belot notes, the cases I consider in the book are cases in which a certain partial differential equation depending upon some parameter needs to macroscopic object like a raindrop say of radius r and the stability of patterns of intensity of light in the asymptotic limit of the wave equation as The mathematical problem here is analogous to the problem of investigating the rainbow from the point of view of the asymptotics of the wave theory.	./cache/work_cyl5uoef4bgzjcy6p3weg5qirq.pdf	./txt/work_cyl5uoef4bgzjcy6p3weg5qirq.txt