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Reduction, philosophy: reduction is the tracing back of a set of statements to another set of statements by rephrasing and replacing concepts of a subject domain by concepts from another subject domain. There must be conditions for the substitutability of a concept from the first domain by a concept from the second domain. An example of a reduction is the tracing back of mental concepts to physical concepts or to behavior. See also bridge laws, reductionism, translation, identity theory, materialism, physical/psychical, physicalism, eliminationism, functionalism, roles, indeterminacy.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Humberto Maturana on Reduction - Dictionary of Arguments

I 69
Properties/reductionism/Maturana: from epistemological reasons we can say: there are characteristics which are diverse and remain constant through interactions.
>Properties
, >Epistemology.
As objects are generated by their defining interactions (characteristics), objects create with different characteristic classes independent interaction areas: each reductionism is excluded.
>Operation/Maturana, >Observation.
((s) Reduction/(s): impossible if miscellaneous remains miscellaneous.
I 98
Reductionism/reduction/Maturana: there is no mechanistic reduction - the impression arises from the fact that the description of the various phenomena occurs in apparently the same area, but the relation created by the observer gets lost.
>Description/Maturana.
Vitalistic explanation: necessary reductionist: it does not distinguish between the phenomenon area generated by the unit and the one generated by parts.
>Domains/Maturana, >Unity.

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Maturana I
Umberto Maturana
Biologie der Realität Frankfurt 2000


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