The emphasis on logical structure makes unity of explanation and reduction chiefly of the synchronic kind.
The commitment of some of the logical empiricists to the unity of science has been in recent years often discussed but less often understood.
Carnap's own essay on this topic "Logical Foundations of the Unity of Science" (1938) was printed as part of the very first number in the encyclopedia.
Strict intertheoretical deduction was taken as the reductive norm by the logical empiricist account of the unity of science (Putnam and Oppenheim 1958), but in more recent decades a looser nonreductive picture of relations among the various sciences has gained favor.
Neurath's views on the social sciences are also the source of much of his distinctive, non-reductionistic, views on physicalism and unity within the movement of logical empiricism (Cartwright et al. 1996).
The transition/transversion ratio near unity in DRB1-e2 is logical in the light of previous studies, which show that when sequences diverge and mutations accumulate, the transition/transversion-ratio decreases finally approaching 1 due to transition saturation [ 16, 17].
"It is logical that in proposing a project of national unity, our proposals are not the only ones that will prevail".
Instead of looking upon Krishna's teaching as laying down alternative ways for different persons in accordance with their aptitudes, it would seem more logical to suppose that he taught the essential unity and interdependence of these ways.
The logical positivist version of reductionism also implies the unity of science insofar as the definability of the theoretical entities of the various sciences in terms of the observable would constitute the common basis of all scientific laws.
