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What he denies, however, is that modality is a fundamentally irreducible feature of the world.
But it differs from the Russellian theory in that it accepts presentness as an irreducible feature of reality.
Abelard draws the conclusion that intentionality is a primitive and irreducible feature of the mind, our acts of attending to things.
This is a primitive and irreducible feature of verbs that can only be discharged when they are joined with names in the syntactically appropriate way, reminiscent of the 'unsaturatedness' of concepts in Frege.
The serious philosophical issue can be put simply and directly: in selection explanations of adaptations, are the functions served by adaptations a central and irreducible feature of those explanations?
The last category comprises frequentist and propensity interpretations of probability.[41] For frequentists, probability is the limit of a relative frequency in a series of events; for the propensity view, it is an irreducible feature of the physical world.
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We might further ask whether causal relations are objective and irreducible features of reality.
In this paper I identify four neuroontologically irreducible features (NOIF) – referral of neural states, mental unity, qualia, and mental causation – defined as aspects of consciousness in which subjective experience is not wholly reducible to objectively observed or objectively understood neurons (ontological subjectivity).
This paper introduces an efficient hardware software platform for computing irreducible testors for feature selection in pattern recognition.
Creation science prefigured the intelligent design arguments of irreducible complexity, even featuring the bacterial flagellum.
Such a case disrupts the existing best model and will help spell out how a high-level feature becomes irreducible, or how a massive amount of low-level data becomes intractable.
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