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A common argument against explanatory reductionism is that higher-level explanations are sometimes or always preferable because they are more general than reductive explanations. Here I challenge two basic assumptions that are needed for that argument to succeed. It cannot be assumed that higher-level explanations are more general than their lower-level alternatives or that higher-level explana...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Educational Review
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0013-1911,1465-3397
DOI: 10.1080/00131910903045948