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    The Nagel model of reduction can be refined to retain its spirit while avoiding many of its original problems

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    • 1.Schaffner, Dizadji-Bahmani et al. (2010), and Butterfield (2011a&b) have developed variants of the Nagel model that address its criticisms
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    • 2.Refinements to the logical framework and relaxation of the completeness condition are viable modifications
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    • 1.Kuhn and Feyerabend established that successor theories are often incommensurable with predecessor theories, not merely extensionally broader.
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    • 2.Incommensurability entails that bridge laws connecting theoretical terms across paradigms cannot be formulated without distorting one theory's meaning.
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    • 3.A refinement that presupposes transtheoretic term identity inherits the original model's fatal semantic assumptions, not merely its formal limitations.
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    • 1.Fodor's multiple realizability argument shows that higher-level kinds systematically resist identification with any single lower-level physical kind.
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    • 2.If bridge laws must accommodate multiple realizability via disjunctions of lower-level predicates, they lose the nomological force required for genuine reduction.
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    • 3.Schaffner-style refinements permitting 'corrected' versions of the reduced theory tacitly acknowledge theoretical replacement, not reduction proper.
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    In response to those critiques, some, like Schaffner and Dizadji-Bahmani et al. (2010) and Butterfield (2011a&b) have developed variants of the Nagel model that retain its spirit but avoid many of the problems faced by the original. Prominent suggestions concern refinements of the logical framework in which Nagelian reduction is described (Dizadji-Bahmani, Frigg, and Hartmann (2010) and Butterfield (2011a)) as well as a relaxation of the condition that reductions must be complete. The idea i
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