Sentence examples for intertheory from high-quality English sources.

• causation: probabilistic | laws of nature | physics: intertheory relations in | probability, interpretations of | statistical physics: Boltzmann’s work in | statistical physics: philosophy of statistical mechanics | time: the experience and perception of

• diagrams | geometry: in the 19th century | logic: classical | logical consequence | logical truth | models in science | physics: intertheory relations in | physics: structuralism in | square of opposition | Tarski, Alfred | Tarski, Alfred: truth definitions

• atomism: 17th to 20th century | atomism: ancient | Boyle, Robert | Duhem, Pierre | models in science | natural kinds | physicalism | physics: intertheory relations in | quantum theory: identity and individuality in | reduction, scientific: in biology | science: unity of | scientific explanation

• Scientific progress, as another example, proceeded by way of higher-level sciences reducing to lower-level sciences; thermodynamics (with its concepts of temperature and pressure), the thought went, was reduced to statistical mechanics (with its concepts of mean kinetic energy and force) (entries: scientific reduction; intertheory relations in physics; scientific progress; laws of nature).

• Carnap, Rudolf | Châtelet, Émilie du | choice, dynamic | empiricism: logical | Feyerabend, Paul | Fleck, Ludwik | Foucault, Michel | incommensurability: of scientific theories | Kuhn, Thomas | models in science | physics: intertheory relations in | physics: structuralism in | Popper, Karl | rationality: historicist theories of | Reichenbach, Hans | relativism | science: unity of | scientific progress | scientific realism | value: incommensurable

• analogy and analogical reasoning | determinism: causal | physics: intertheory relations in | quantum mechanics | quantum theory: quantum field theory | quantum theory: quantum gravity | reduction, scientific | science: unity of | scientific discovery | space and time: absolute and relational theories of space and motion | space and time: being and becoming in modern physics | space and time: inertial frames | space and time: the hole argument | statistical physics: philosophy of statistical mechanics | time: thermodynamic asymmetry in | time machines | time travel

• Anscombe, Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret | biology: experiment in | causation: and manipulability | causation: counterfactual theories of | causation: the metaphysics of | Descartes, René | empiricism: logical | Helmholtz, Hermann von | individualism, methodological | models in science | molecular biology | natural kinds | Newton, Isaac | physicalism | physics: intertheory relations in | reduction, scientific | reduction, scientific: in biology | Reichenbach, Hans | science: unity of | scientific discovery | scientific explanation | teleology: teleological notions in biology