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I wish to thank David Pearce for enlightening criticism and Winfred Klink for correcting my English.
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Rott, H. Reduction: Some criteria and criticisms of the structuralist concept. Erkenntnis 27, 231–256 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00175370
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