Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prologue
- Introduction
- 1 Scientific abstractions
- 2 The nature of explanation
- 3 Configurational explanations
- 4 Templeting
- 5 Self-assembly
- 6 Rules for configurational explanations
- 7 Simple, complex and random
- 8 Reductionism
- Appendix: A pattern theoretic formalization
- Quotation index
- Subject index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prologue
- Introduction
- 1 Scientific abstractions
- 2 The nature of explanation
- 3 Configurational explanations
- 4 Templeting
- 5 Self-assembly
- 6 Rules for configurational explanations
- 7 Simple, complex and random
- 8 Reductionism
- Appendix: A pattern theoretic formalization
- Quotation index
- Subject index
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- Chapter
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- Templets and the Explanation of Complex Patterns , pp. 47 - 59Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1986