What is the Point of Reduction in Science?

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  2018

• Venue

  Erkenntnis: An International Journal of Scientific Philosophy

• Publication date

  2018-11-30

• Fields of study

  Philosophy, Computer Science

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  DOI 10.1007/S10670-018-0085-6
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