Sergio Chibbaro / Angelo Vulpiani / Lamberto Rondoni
Reductionism, Emergence and Levels of Reality
- Springer International Publishing
- 2016
- Taschenbuch
- 176 Seiten
- ISBN 9783319356426
Scientists have always attempted to explain the world in terms of a few unifying principles. In the fifth century B.C. Democritus boldly claimed that reality is simply a collection of indivisible and eternal parts or atoms. Over the centuries his doctrine has remained a landmark, and much progress in physics is due to its distinction between subjective perception and objective reality. This book discusses theory reduction in physics, which states that the whole is nothing more than the sum of its parts: the properties of things are directly determined by their constituent parts. Reductionism deals with the relation between different theories that address different levels of
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