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Item Details
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TRANSLATION, REDUCTION AND EQUIVALENCE
SOME TOPICS IN INTERTHEORY RELATIONS |
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David Pearce |
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Paperback |
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£37.95 |
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ISBN 10: |
3820484442 |
ISBN 13: |
9783820484441 |
Publisher: |
PETER LANG GMBH |
Series: |
European University Studies v. 166 |
Pages: |
230 |
Synopsis: |
Contemporary epistemology and philosophy of science devote a central place to questions of the following sort: When are two conceptual frameworks equivalent? Under what conditions is one scientific theory reducible to another? This essay attempts to reach a clearer grasp of these issues by providing a logical analysis of intertheory translation and reduction. Taking first order logic as a starting point, several classical theorems on definability and interpolation are generalised so as to obtain a model-theoretic characterisation of some basic types of reductive relations between theories. This account is later extended by adopting a very general and powerful semantical framework inspired by abstract logic. In this setting it is shown how a richer class of intertheoretic relations can be defined, and how the structuralist approach to reduction, developed by Sneed and Stegmueller, can be critically evaluated. |
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Germany |
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Peter Lang GmbH |
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