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    It is not the case that If theories are constituents of scientific practice and thus of reality, the relata of epistemic reduction are also non-representational in the relevant ontological sense.

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    • 1.Theories can be constituents of practice without being constituents of reality itself; conflating these categories commits a category error.
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    • 2.Non-representational ontology faces the problem: if theories don't represent reality, what makes scientific predictions causally effective?
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    • 3.The claim assumes 'relata of reduction' must have identical ontological status, but reduction often relates entities of fundamentally different kinds.
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    • 1.Scientific theories are embedded in laboratory practices, instrumentation, and social institutions, not merely abstract representations.
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    • 2.If theories constitutively shape what counts as 'reality' within science, then reducing theories requires reducing these material-social constituents.
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    • 3.Representationalism assumes theories mirror independent facts, but practices actively construct epistemic objects, making representation secondary.
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