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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Emergence/zlFRW0oj">Emergence</a> – Unpredictable phenomenon in complex systems</li> <li><a href="/facts/Emergentism/YEP0Q8x7">Emergentism</a> – Philosophical belief in emergence</li> <li><a href="/facts/Multiple_realizability/TkAeWXPy">Multiple realizability</a> – Thesis in the philosophy of mind</li> <li><a href="/facts/Reductionism/tc2aWaza">Reductionism</a> – Philosophical view explaining systems in terms of smaller parts</li> <li><a href="/facts/Supervenience/SL8w5Gcb">Supervenience</a> – Relation between sets of properties or facts</li> <li><a href="/facts/The_central_science/K04KbNV2">The central science</a> – Term often associated with chemistry</li> <li><a href="/facts/Unity_of_science/CQkrdGnn">Unity of science</a> – Theory in the philosophy of science</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Fodor, J. (1974). "Special Sciences (Or: The disunity of science as a working hypothesis)". Synthese. 28 (2): 97–115. doi:10.1007/BF00485230. S2CID 46979938. <a href="https://philarchive.org/rec/FODSSO-2" target="_blank">https://philarchive.org/rec/FODSSO-2</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Fodor, J. (1974). "Special Sciences (Or: The disunity of science as a working hypothesis)". Synthese. 28 (2): 97–115. doi:10.1007/BF00485230. S2CID 46979938. <a href="https://philarchive.org/rec/FODSSO-2" target="_blank">https://philarchive.org/rec/FODSSO-2</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Jaegwon, Kim (2005). Physicalism, or something near enough. Princeton University Press. p. 95. <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>