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The reductionist hypothesis may still lbe a topic for controversy among phi- losophers, but among the great majority of active scientists I think it is accepted without question The workings of our minds and bodles, and of all the ani- mate or lnanimate matter of which we have any detailed knowledges are as sumed to be controlled by the same set o fundamental laws which except under certain extreme conditions we feel we know pretty well. It seems inevitable to go on unerit- ically to what appears at first sight to be- an obvious corollary of reduction ism: that if everything obeys the same fundamental laws, then the only sci entists who are studying anything really fundamental are those who are working on those laws.
pyramidal molecules, made of heavier atoms. Hydrogen phosphide, PH3, which is twice as heavy as ammonia, inverts, but at one-tenth the ammonia frequency. Phosphorus triRuoride, PF3, in which the much heavier fluorine is substituted for hydrogen, is not observed to invert at a measurable rate, although theo-
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