On Some Patterns of Reduction
1970; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 37; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1086/288312
ISSN1539-767X
Autores Tópico(s)Science and Climate Studies
ResumoThe notion of reduction in the natural sciences has been assimilated to the notion of inter-theoretical explanation. Many philosophers of science (following Nagel) have held that the apparently ontological issues involved in reduction should be replaced by analyses of the syntactic and semantic connections involved in explaining one theory on the basis of another. The replacement does not seem to have been especially successful, for we still lack a plausible account of inter-theoretical explanation. I attempt to provide one.
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