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Reduction by Molecular Genetics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

William K. Goosens
William K. Goosens*
Affiliation:
Lawrence University
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Abstract

Taking reduction in the traditional deductive sense, the programmatic claim that most of genetics can be reduced by molecular genetics is defended as feasible and significant. Arguments by Ruse and Hull that either the relationship is replacement or at best a weaker form of reduction are shown to rest on a mixture of historical and logical confusions about the nature of the theories involved.

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Research Article
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 45 , Issue 1 , March 1978 , pp. 73 - 95
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Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1978

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