Your treatment seems to paint Reductionism as an epistemic thesis about explanation. That’s consistent with some philosophical treatments, but there’s also a (merely) ontological thesis that goes by the name “Reductionism”. I think EY has an ontological thesis in mind, although I’m very tentative about that.
I think he might have an ontological claim in mind as well, although I can’t see how anyone could get at the ontology without going through the epistemology.
Your treatment seems to paint Reductionism as an epistemic thesis about explanation. That’s consistent with some philosophical treatments, but there’s also a (merely) ontological thesis that goes by the name “Reductionism”. I think EY has an ontological thesis in mind, although I’m very tentative about that.
I think he might have an ontological claim in mind as well, although I can’t see how anyone could get at the ontology without going through the epistemology.