The logic of reductionistic models

Allegedly reductionistic strategies in psychology rarely converge on matters of ontological consequence and thus rarely hold out promise of a genuinely reductionistic program of theory and explanation. This is all to the good for psychology for, were it otherwise, the discipline itself would be the first casualty. Of the humbler reductive strategies, it is the nomological that continues to earn scientific status for psychology, but this is a strategy that actually requires most of the psychological entities that reductionists typically seek to eliminate.