In Anthony Aguirre, Brendan Foster & Zeeya Merali (eds.),
What is Fundamental? Cham: Springer Verlag. pp. 115-121 (
2019)
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Abstract
The four key attributes of a fundamental explanatory structure are: irreducibility, generality, commensurability, and fertility. Because reductionism ultimately fails as an explanation of all things, a mutually commensurable set of fundamental ideas is required, as opposed to a single fundamental Theory of Everything. However, the unity of science is insured by the commensurable interrelationships between these fundamental explanatory structures.