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work_wmvqxiemyvedjejgtvbyellgpq	Elliott Sober	The Multiple Realizability Argument against Reductionism	1999	24	.pdf	application/pdf	10661	765	61	a higher-level science can be explained by physics. The multiple realizability argument against reductionism does not deny that higher-level properties are determined by lowerlevel properties. person may deploy different physical realizations of the same psychological properties. multiply realized by properties discussed in a lower-level science. the idea of multiple realizability to argue that laws in a higher-level The third and fourth premises state bridge principles that connect a property discussed in a higher-level science with on the issue of reductionism as follows: We now need statements formulated in higher-level sciences because present day physics is not able Higher-level sciences describe properties that are multiply realizable and that provide good explanations. If higher-level sciences provide good explanations of phenomena argument-higher-level sciences "abstract away" from the physical details that make for differences among the micro-realizations that a explanations formulated by higher-level sciences can be illuminating, 	./cache/work_wmvqxiemyvedjejgtvbyellgpq.pdf	./txt/work_wmvqxiemyvedjejgtvbyellgpq.txt