Sentence examples for models of reduction from inspiring English sources

A number of different models of reduction have been proposed.

(Section 4 reviews the main objections to different models of reduction more generally).

Van Gulick (1992, 2010) highlights another aspect of the relevance of conceptual considerations for models of reduction.

The general status of structuralism is an important factor in assessing the problems these models of reduction seem to face.

Kemeny and Oppenheim suggest that idealization may be justified in developing models of reduction, noting that without idealization things would become "hopelessly complex" (Kemeny & Oppenheim 1956: 13).

The most relevant of these aspects are to be captured in a rational reconstruction, which plays a major role in some models of reduction.

This is a powerful model of reduction.

Nagel's model of reduction is a model of scientific structure and explanation as well as of scientific progress.

Finally, mechanists argue that the intertheoretic model of reduction fails to capture an important dimension of explanatory quality: depth.

Similarly, Kenneth Schaffner suggests that an appropriate model of reduction should take into account not only logical or metaphysical aspects regarding the reduced and the reducing theory.

The Nagel model of reduction thus seems to suggest that a reduced theory is directly explained by the corresponding reducing theory.