TY - JOUR T1 - Ideal-Model Descriptions and Truth JF - Organon F Y1 - 2017 A1 - Bielik, Lukáš KW - ideal-model descriptions KW - Idealization assumptions KW - material implication KW - models KW - truth AB - In scientific practice, we find ideal models that rely on a sort of idealization. These ideal-model descriptions are usually construed as distorted representations of some real system. As such, the ideal-model descriptions count as appeals to (scientific) fictions. Here, I present a category of ideal-model descriptions which – even though involving some idealization assumptions – are nevertheless true. These cases come out as puzzling though. On the one hand, they presuppose some misrepresentations of an intended target system; on the other hand, they are true of that target system. IS - 1 VL - 24 SP - 123-131 UR - http://www.klemens.sav.sk/fiusav/doc/organon/prilohy/2017/1/123-131.pdf U2 - Articles U3 - 123131 U5 - 1 TI - Ideal-Model Descriptions and Truth ER -