A Case of Identity

Littlewood, D.T.J. and Donovan, S.K. (2003) Fossil parasites a case of identity. Geology Today 19, 136-142. 

A literary mystery is also cormected to barirrm srrlfate. In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle s crime story titled A Case of Identity, a conversation between Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson goes like this. 

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We have thus sketched the four most prominent suggestions for defining reduction in the philosophy of science. All these characterizations at least cover a case of identity-based reduction. However, it is not obvious how they should fit the explication proposed in Chaps. 4 and 5 all these characterizations are characterizations of a relation the primary relata of which are theories, or other scientific representational devices, rather than properties or other non-representational worldly objects. The next section offers a notion of theory reduction that is derivative on the notion explicated above. In Chap. 8 it will be argued that in fact, notions of theory reduction are derivative on notions of property reduction, that is it will be shown that the procedure to obtain a notion of theory reduction from a notion of ontological reduction proposed in the next section is in fact adequate. 

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