I have recently been asked to define "scientific reduction" using a bunch of articles handed out. However, I'm completing the excecise in order to dodge a test, so none of the papers I'm supposed to use are yet available for reference!

 

I've understood that "scientific reduction" is something Karl Popper has discussed, yet so far I have failed to locate a strict definition of his, even though Sir Poppers seems to have used it quite a lot in his immense literature.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated, guys!

is This of any help at all? : http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/at/popper.htm

 

it`s 1`st in the list using This search: http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004-10,GGLD:en&q=%22scientific+reduction%22++Karl+Popper

Thanks, sir, but I've already viewed these two. The problem is, that the chapter presented doesn't introduce the term, so Popper doesn't make an effort to define it either!