Ronald M. Yoshida: “Reduction in The Physical Sciences.” Dalhousie: Dalhousie University Press, 1977. 90 pages [Book Review]

Dialogue 18 (1):81-99 (1979)
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Yoshida's explicit aim is to defend the standard empiricist model of reduction-bydeduction from recent attacks. Thus the treatment is limited in both scope and orientation.I shall argue that Yoshida does not succeed. The failure is both internal and external.

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