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In science, as well as in philosophy, the method of reduction is a fundamental tool for reconciling prima facie conflicting theories and for rendering apparently disparate conceptual frameworks rationally comparable. As a field of systematic investigation by philosophers of science, reduction has flourished at least since the classical analysis provided by Ernest Nagel (1949).1 From that time on, the subject has been intensively studied, from a variety of philosophical perspectives, using a variety of logical and mathematical methods, and taking a variety of standard examples as paradigmatic.
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Pearce, D. (1987). The Logic of Reducibility. In: Roads to Commensurability. Synthese Library, vol 187. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3777-2_5
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