ABSTRACT
My belief that we can more easily explain the presence of special sciences once we deny deductive holism might make it reasonable to predict a sympathy with claims that the special sciences are, in the language of certain philosophers, autonomous;1 where views about the ways one science might reduce to another, and issues about the supervenience of the terminology of (or the properties studied in) a special science on the terminology (properties) of an underlying science, affect what “autonomy” means.
