id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_ulegolobxjcv3mairhrhmtfuiq Michela Massimi Perspectival Modeling 2018 26 .pdf application/pdf 10997 932 57 If different models (partially and approximately true though they might be) veridically represent relevant properties essential and inconsistent with one another, a problem of metaphysical inconsistency arises (i.e., model M1 delivers a partial, veridical representation Two preliminary clarifications: the first is about the link between perspectival models and what I have called the "realist quest" (or, more generally, A good starting point is Morrison's aforementioned observation that "perspectivism is the view that: from the perspective of theory T, model M represents system S in a particular way" (2015, 159). relatively uncontroversial assumption that scientific models (partially) represent relevant aspects of a given target system S—hides, at a closer look, Truth-by-truthmakers States of affairs ascribe essential properties to particulars, and, as such, they act as ontological grounds that make the knowledge claims afforded by the model (approximately) true.5 4. Scientific perspectivism implies that different models provide different accurate, partial, de re representations for the same target system S. ./cache/work_ulegolobxjcv3mairhrhmtfuiq.pdf ./txt/work_ulegolobxjcv3mairhrhmtfuiq.txt