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Wedding-cake model

David Hull. My purpose for presenting the wedding-cake model is to indicate how inadequate it is. In my talk, I mentioned that the humanities are being left out of the wedding-cake model. Certainly mathematics is also being left out. I would like to see a model that is so structured that it includes more than just the empirical sciences, narrowly defined. But you are right. Mathematics is crucial to science, and it is omitted from the wedding cake model. [Pg.173]

According to Rose (1998, p. 10), this traditional wedding-cake hierarchy of levels is one source of the bias toward reductionism that permeates our understanding of science. It may well permeate our society and thus seem natural, but if this model is looked at somewhat more closely, it begins... [Pg.162]

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