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... unity of science ' is a much stronger , and much less plausible , thesis than the generality of physics . If this is true it is important . Though reductionism is an empirical doctrine , it is intended . to play a regulative role in ...
... unity of science ' is a much stronger , and much less plausible , thesis than the generality of physics . If this is true it is important . Though reductionism is an empirical doctrine , it is intended . to play a regulative role in ...
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... science may be a heterogeneous and unsystematic disjunction of predicates in the re- ducing science . We do not want the unity of science to be prejudiced by this possibility . Suppose , then , that we allow that bridge statements may ...
... science may be a heterogeneous and unsystematic disjunction of predicates in the re- ducing science . We do not want the unity of science to be prejudiced by this possibility . Suppose , then , that we allow that bridge statements may ...
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... unity of science to exhibit . I now want to give two further reasons for thinking that this construal of the unity of science is right . First , it allows us to see how the laws of the special sciences could reasonably have exceptions ...
... unity of science to exhibit . I now want to give two further reasons for thinking that this construal of the unity of science is right . First , it allows us to see how the laws of the special sciences could reasonably have exceptions ...
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