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Introduction: Levels of Reality
The Monist 105 (2):147-155 (2022)
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We give a general background describing how the notion of levels of reality comes about in contemporary nonreductive approaches to the special sciences, what the notion of levels means in these approaches, its role in our scientific outlook of the world, and why it is important.Author Profiles
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