Higher-level descriptions: why should we preserve them

Charbel Nino El-Hani & Antonio Marcos Pereira

In P. B. Andersen, Claus Emmeche, N. O. Finnemann & P. V. Christiansen (eds.), Downward Causation. University of Aarhus Press (2000) Copy BIBT_EX

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