# Finally! The truth about truth: Folk foundations of scientific reductionism

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The piece argues that scientific reductionism reflects a folk theory of truth and proposes level-specific tendencies as an alternative model of knowledge.

Blog post · Hermeneutic Heretic · 7 February 2008

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## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 7 February 2008
- Published in: Hermeneutic Heretic
- Language: English

Topics: truth, reductionism, philosophy-of-science, complex-systems.

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