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This paper presents a definition of an intertheoretic relation which is based on G. Ludwig’s concept of “approximate embedding”.
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Schmidt, HJ. (1984). Tangent Embedding — A Special Kind of Approximate Reduction. In: Balzer, W., Pearce, D.A., Schmidt, HJ. (eds) Reduction in Science. Synthese Library, vol 175. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6454-9_11
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