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Rarely, if ever, does one find in the literature actual proofs of irreducibility of one theory to another. So for all we know, most theories could be reducible to each other, a situation which would deprive positive reducibility results of much of their interest.
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Hoering, W. (1984). Anomalies of Reduction. 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_4
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