 leads to
&gt;different ontological structures, and neither this nor the other theory,
&gt;makes clear its high level ontological commitment - then amalgamating the
&gt;theories will be more difficult.
&gt;
&gt;This is a general point that I think and others have raised before. Unless
&gt;we get agreement on the high level structure (the ontological paradigm) and
&gt;this will involve hard choices then I do not see how we can expect to
&gt;amalgamate the lower level theories.

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