Reductionism

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Vladimir_Nesov (+149) simplified models actually refer to reality, even if they don't play a role in its behavior.

Reductionism is a disbelief that the higher levels of simplified multilevel models are out there in the territory, that concepts constructed by mind in themselves play a role in the behavior of reality. This doesn't contradict the notion that the concepts used in simplified multilevel models refer to the actual clusters of configurations of reality.

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