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work_nqqxp7esujbztoulqw5kzjrxbm	Elay Shech	What Is the Paradox of Phase Transitions?	2013	11	.pdf	application/pdf	5239	302	54	philosophical import one should infer from scientific accounts of "Phase Transitions," by import one should infer from the scientific accounts of phase transitions, in particular the generalized and arises whenever a scientific account appeals to an "Essential Idealization"1 (EI)—roughly, when a scientific account of some concrete physical phenomena appeals to an Tenets 1-2 imply that concrete and finite systems display phase transitions while tenets 3-5 imply in tenets 3 and 4 refer to concrete objects, or abstracts mathematical representations of them. Just because abstract mathematical representations of concrete systems discontinuities in abstract representational partition function and concrete phase transitions. abstract mathematical representation of concrete PT, which arise in scientific accounts of PT, no correspondence relation to hold between abstract representations and concrete systems. discontinuities representing phase transitions are faithful and hence correspond to concrete 1) A scientific account of some concrete phenomena appeals to an idealization(s) and refers essentially idealized scientific representations correspond to the concrete systems 	./cache/work_nqqxp7esujbztoulqw5kzjrxbm.pdf	./txt/work_nqqxp7esujbztoulqw5kzjrxbm.txt