Towards a General Theory of Reduction. Part II: Identity in Reduction
- 1 June 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review/Revue Canadienne de Philosophie
- Vol. 20 (2) , 201-236
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0012217300023301
Abstract
Part I of this trilogy,Historical and Scientific Setting, set out a general context for selecting a certain subclass of inter-theoretic relations as achieving appropriate explanatory and ontological unification – hence for properly being labelled reductive. Something of the complexity of these relations in real science was explored. The present article concentrates on the role which identity plays in structuring the reduction relation and so in achieving ontological and explanatory unification.This publication has 31 references indexed in Scilit:
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