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I 152
Individual Sciences/reductionism/natural kind/generalization/Fodor: idividual sciences must allow exceptions. The laws which connect the individual disjuncts in liberal reductionism, however, do not need to allow any exceptions. Wrong solution: natural ways of individual sciences to distinguish wherever the natural kinds equal physics.
This requirement would make the laws of the individual sciences valid without exception. E.g. its own economic law for each currency system would invariably be valid, but no longer a generalization, gain in insight. Then you can no longer tell what is happening in monetary systems, then e.g. a currency system would no longer be a natural kind. Exceptions are superficially explained on the level of reducing science.
>Reduction, >Reductionism.

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