Hierarchies and levels of reality

We examine some assumptions about the nature of 'levels of reality' in the light of examples drawn from physics. Three central assumptions of the standard view of such levels (for instance, Oppenheim and Putnam 1958) are (i) that levels are populated by entities of varying complexity, (ii)...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Synthese (Dordrecht) 2010-10, Vol.176 (3), p.379-397
Hauptverfasser:	Rueger, Alexander, McGivern, Patrick
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Approximation Behavior Education Epistemology Logic Mereology Metaphysics Nonreductive physicalism Ontological pluralism Ontology Phenomena Philosophical object Philosophy Philosophy of Language Philosophy of Science Physicalism Physics Reductionism
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