Sentence examples for multiple realization issues from inspiring English sources

If the aim is to explain a type of phenomenon, multiple realization issues (many-one) may arise.

One strategy is simply to take multiple realization at face value.

The status of multiple realization in philosophy is currently a subject of debate and may hinge on certain metaphysical commitments about the concept of realization (Gillett 2002, 2003, 2010).

Defending a claimed multiple realization involves two steps.

They contend that neuroscientists, unlike philosophers, are unfazed by massive multiple realization.

The demands in actually establishing multiple realization are thus quite strict.

Their functions may be similar, but similarity isn't identity and multiple realization requires the latter.

Neither suffices to provide a kind of actual multiple realization that the standard argument requires.

(See the entries on functionalism and multiple realization for useful discussion).

And he denies that multiple realization rules out comparisons of brains across different species.

Finally, Aizawa (forthcoming) presents numerous scientific examples of multiple realization by "compensatory differences".