Reduction, ontology and the limits of convention

It is widely agreed that ontological reduction is possible, that the ontology of one theory can be shown to be nothing over and above the ontology of a distinct theory. However, it is also widely agreed that one assesses a theory’s ontology by determining what it says there is. I show that there is...

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Main Author: Pickel, Bryan William
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-12-2367