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One way of comparing two theories T,T’ is to reduce T to T’ in a formal sense. Much has been written about different intuitions on reduction and several meta-scientific concepts of reduction have been proposed; hut few examples have been used by way of detailed examination in order tgx throw light on those meta-scientific concepts. Of course, there are numerous examples of reduction in the ordinary (i.e.“non-meta”) scientific literature.But usually meta-scientific concepts of reduction cannot be directly applied to such examples: the “ordinary” treatments may be too vague,too sloppy,too incomplete,or they may use special assumptions so that actually only very small fragments of the theories are involved.
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Balzer, W. (1984). On the Comparison of Classical and Special Relativistic Space-Time. In: Balzer, W., Pearce, D.A., Schmidt, HJ. (eds) Reduction in Science. Synthese Library, vol 175. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6454-9_17
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