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Trust to Testimony: Reductionism and Non-Reductionism [PDF]
Introduction. The article is devoted to the epistemology of communicative knowledge. It is argued that the central problem in the analysis of such knowledge is the question of the status of testimony.
M. G. Khort
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Experiments on artificial membranes are revealing many details about the workings of a family of potassium ion channels called GIRK channels.
Christopher Miller
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The Non-Systemic Usages of Systems as Reductionism: Quasi-Systems and Quasi-Systemics
Usual reductionism considers systemic, acquired properties as non-systemic, possessed properties. We consider here the non-systemic usages of systems, misunderstood as non-interacting virtual objects or devices, and the misunderstanding between non ...
Gianfranco Minati
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Methodological Individualism and Reductionism [PDF]
This chapter analyzes the relationship between methodological individualism (MI) and reductionism. While the latter term is mainly used in reference to MI with a negative meaning, i.e.
Di Iorio, F.
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So what do we really mean when we say that systems biology is holistic? [PDF]
Background: An old debate has undergone a resurgence in systems biology: that of reductionism versus holism. At least 35 articles in the systems biology literature since 2003 have touched on this issue.
Gatherer, Derek, Derek Gatherer
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Reductionism or Emergentism? [PDF]
The goal of science is to explain reality and the world, and the goal of philosophy is also ontology. Philosophical views on scientific opinions and scientific opinions have had a direct influence on the way of worldview and ontology.
Ahmad Ebadi, Mohammad Mahdi Amousoltani
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A cross-cultural religiology between reductionism and anti-reductionism
‘Religion’ has been subjected to two kinds of reduction: one from the various branches of religious studies, the other being the mutual ‘reduction’ among religions.
Guicai Wang
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The curse of the protein ribbon diagram.
Does reductionism, in the era of machine learning and now interpretable AI, facilitate or hinder scientific insight? The protein ribbon diagram, as a means of visual reductionism, is a case in point.
Philip E Bourne +2 more
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Ethical reductionism is the best version of naturalistic moral realism. Reductionists regard moral properties as identical to properties appearing in successful scientific theories.
Sinhababu, Neil
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Scientistic Philosophy, No; Scientific Philosophy, Yes [PDF]
If successful scientific inquiry is to be possible, there must be a world that is independent of how we believe it to be, and in which there are kinds and laws; and we must have the sensory apparatus to perceive particular things and events, and the ...
Susan Haack
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