Nagel himself construed reduction as an epistemic notion without ontological commitment; he did not even require that bridge statements be biconditionals, as mere conditionals when conjoined with TA sometimes are able to logically entail TB.
When discussing the status of bridge-principles (intuitively, statements that connect the vocabulary of the reducing theory to the reduced theory), Ernest Nagel suggested that they might play different roles in the discovery of reductions than in after the fact analyses.
Statements with lower bridging values were less often sorted with statements from outside that cluster; therefore, they are assumed to be more central to the interpretation of their own cluster.
Statements were ordered by "bridging value," which is an expression of how often statements were sorted together with statements in other clusters.
Auriemma said he never expected to coach the national team, not with his history of outlandish statements and bridges burned.
A Republican investment banker, William E. Simon Jr., who announced his candidacy for governor today, put it bluntly: "When you come out and make blanket statements that bridges might be attacked, that sends a certain level of panic and fear in people".
Nagel rejected the idea that bridge principles are analytic statements but did not take a stand as to whether they are factual or conventional.
Rather, we infer bridge-laws from the discovery of relevant similarities between the two theories (for the explanatory role of bridge-laws and identity statements, see also Marras (2005: 351) and Block & Stalnaker (1999: 28)).
Chico MacMurtrie's Border Crossers are sculptural statements that bridge borders, both physical and symbolic.
These concepts are illustrated in three innovative case studies, in which pharmacometrics has been used to understand phase III failures, expand indication statement through bridging of data, and balance the needs of patients with the needs for information on dose response.
