Sentence examples for as a reductive analysis from inspiring English sources

(This is not intended as a reductive analysis).

This appears to rob the theory of its status as a reductive analysis of causation.

The trouble is that this looks unpromising as a reductive analysis as there is a term in it that appears decidedly evaluative in character, "mature".

However, the response to this is that circularity is only a problem if the conceptions are interpreted as providing a reductive analysis of the notion of the physical.

But there is no reason why they should be interpreted as attempting to provide a reductive analysis.

But this legitimate question should not be interpreted as the demand for a reductive analysis of the notion of the physical.

When it is glossed in tempting ways, as "if PW were true, then …" or "it follows from PW that …", it seems to be a modal notion: and if this is not to be further explained, the modal fictionalist cannot use the fiction of possible worlds and its contents as the basis of a reductive analysis of modality.

We have little reason to think that all the relevant causes can be given a reductive analysis, for as Schaffner dryly points out, to specify and measure environmental variables in purely molecular terms "would be a very long-term project" (1994, 287).

Jackson seeks to describe a reductive analysis of ethical terms that understands them as picking out the properties that play a certain role in the conceptual network determined by mature folk morality.

"That's just what I intend to do in this book with a reductive analysis of people who have succeeded at something".

It is important to note that the possible worlds of abstractionism do not yield a reductive analysis of modality.