 For instance, Elgin asks us to consider a paint sample we might see in a hardware store—say, of the shade jonquil yellow (Elgin 2017: 187). While the sample might in fact be subtly different than the actual shade, and hence in that sense misrepresent it, it nonetheless seems to provide epistemic access to the shade. Idealizations such as the Ideal Gas Law or Snell’s law work are then held to work in a similar way. They represent not by mirroring but rather by exemplifying certain aspects of the target system, and via the mechanism of exemplification enable understanding of the system (Elgin 2017).