id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_j4yiujwba5dkxccl7wb2a4zkgm Robert C. Bishop Patching Physics and Chemistry Together 2005 10 .pdf application/pdf 4733 267 46 ontologically and epistemologically to reduce molecular chemistry to quantum mechanics. mechanics do not characterize the relationship between molecular chemistry and quantum molecular chemistry, the new ontological elements are structures absent from quantum mechanics. situation in ยง2, molecular structure indeed is not predictable from quantum mechanics, the more can derive the emergent property of molecular structure (e.g., Primas 1998; Bishop and and ontologies of quantum mechanics on the one hand and those of molecular chemistry on the the physical sciences regarding quantum mechanics and molecular chemistry, popular ways of way of characterizing emergent properties is highly misleading in the case of molecular structure. category of contextual emergence: quantum mechanics provides necessary conditions (e.g., in the appropriate contingent context, necessary and sufficient conditions relating quantum mechanics and contributions the laws and constituents of quantum mechanics make to molecular structure are (1976), "Quantum Theory and Molecular Structure," Advances in Physics 25: ./cache/work_j4yiujwba5dkxccl7wb2a4zkgm.pdf ./txt/work_j4yiujwba5dkxccl7wb2a4zkgm.txt