id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_nrdhftlbxfa3vfg453clb3nsai John D. Norton Approximation and Idealization: Why the Difference Matters* 2012 31 .pdf application/pdf 10078 743 57 limit systems used in statistical physics can fail to provide idealizations, but are Idealizations refer to new systems whose properties approximate those of the target properties of the limiting system, the infinite cylinder, whose ratio of area to volume is also 2. In this case, the limit property is an approximation, an inexact description, of the result, taking a limit with infinitely large numbers of components is a standard device. In these cases, the infinite limit system fails to provide an idealization and we have a finite systems have the properties of determinism and energy conservation; hence the limit properties (approximation); or whether the limit system of an actual infinity of components is the properties of infinite limit systems. limits to provide explanations of the behavior of finite target systems is delicate, for infinite limiting properties of finite systems, as their number of components grown large. ./cache/work_nrdhftlbxfa3vfg453clb3nsai.pdf ./txt/work_nrdhftlbxfa3vfg453clb3nsai.txt