PHL * K101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Reductionism, Deductive Reasoning, Altruistic Suicide
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Logic of reductionism another theory in another. In science, what it means to say one theory in one domain can be reduced to. Idea that the theory being reduced is less fundamental than the theory being. Concept that science progresses when particular fields of knowledge are reduced reduced to a more fundamental level. Galileo made a theory, kepler made a theory- after kepler created his theory, and. Isaac newton was able to reduce the theories of both galileo and kepler into the theory of physics newton presented. Galileo"s laws and kepler"s will be reduced and explained by newtonian theory- aka more fundamental. Continuing on, from einstein"s theory of relativity, we can reduce a theory more- same with quantum mechanics. Possibility of reduction is one of the marks of progress, but there is a logic to reduction. Question is whether or not sociology is an autonomous principle or reducible to.
