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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. Ernest Nagel’s model of this process uses “bridge laws” (-5[1])to link scientific theories. 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 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. For 10 points, a logical fallacy is named for doing what process “to absurdity,” (-5[1])or ad absurdum? ■END■ (10[4]0[2])

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