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Philosophy of science

the view that the sciences do not form a single reducible system but study many overlapping kinds of things with diverse methods.

In philosophy of science, disunity of science refers to the view that the sciences do not form a single reducible system but study many overlapping kinds of things with diverse methods. This meaning comes from Dupré (1993) in The disorder of things.[1]

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Dupré, J. (1993). The disorder of things. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674212602

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