A Case Study on Theory Reduction and its Philosophy of Science

DOI10.4288/JAFPOS1956.9.255MaRDI QIDQ4528616zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Shunkichi Matsumoto

Publication date 11 February 2001

Published in Annals of the Japan Association for Philosophy of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4288/jafpos1956.9.255

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations of thermodynamics and heat transfer (80A05) General histories, source books (01A05)

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• On the reducibility of hypotheses and consequences

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