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- adjective Tending to
unify .
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Examples
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A set of behavior patterns serves as the explanatory or unificatory features bringing together the appearance of similar features across a very diverse set of phenomena and disciplines
Chaos Bishop, Robert 2008
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We will need to spell out what counts as an attractive theory but for this we can appeal to the standard desiderata for good scientific theories: empirical success; unificatory power; simplicity; explanatory power; fertility and so on.
Indispensability Arguments in the Philosophy of Mathematics Colyvan, Mark 2008
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In the use of all such principles our reflective judgment follows the natural unificatory tendency of the mind and acts, says Kant, “with art.”
METAPHYSICAL IMAGINATION MICHAEL MORAN 1968
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It is important to Quine that certain things, such as math and logic, are less open to revision and rejection because they provide such utility and unificatory power.
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