Question

Kemeny and Oppenheim’s “indirect” view of this process was one of many classified by Kenneth Schaffner. Explanation and this process conflict with empiricism according to a paper that coined the term “incommensurable” by Paul Feyerabend. (-5[2])Ernest Nagel’s model of this process (-5[1])uses “bridge laws” (-5[2])to link scientific theories. (-5[1])An “ism” named for this process is divided into “good” and “greedy” versions in Darwin’s Dangerous Idea and follows the analytic-synthetic distinction as the second (-5[1])of Quine’s “Two Dogmas of Empiricism.” (-5[1])This word denotes the process of explaining a complex phenomenon via a more fundamental (10[1])one, which is often used in a negative sense to imply oversimplification. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])a logical fallacy is named for doing what process “to absurdity,” (-5[2])or ad (10[1])absurdum? (10[1])■END■ (10[8]0[3])

ANSWER: reduction [or word forms such as reducing or reductive; accept scientific reduction; accept greedy reductionism; accept reductio ad absurdum] (Feyerabend’s paper is “Explanation, Reduction, and Empiricism.”)
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