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Nagel suggested that one theory is reduced to another when the axioms of the reduced theory can be derived from the axioms of the reducing theory, supplemented with principles ("bridge principles") that connect the language of the reduced theory with that of the reducing theory.
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The reduction of one theory to another consists of rewriting the axioms of the target theory using the language of the reducing theory, and then proving them as theorems of that reducing theory.
However, if TB contains scientific terms that do not occur in the language of the reducing theory TA ("organismal reproduction" is not an expression of biochemistry), then derivability presupposes that the primitive expressions of TB (in particular its predicates) can be logically related to the language of TA.
With the Freudian mystique of the 1960s and '70s on the wane, and the language of psychotherapy reduced to the banal pop scripture of reality television, the Age of Sondheim may be fading.
Films made in other languages experienced a slight lift because of the reduced competition.
He was working at the time on the poems that became Ripostes (1912), trying to move away from his earlier work; he wrote that the "stilted language" of Canzoni had reduced Ford Madox Ford to rolling on the floor with laughter.
One way to view this relationship is to consider, as suggested by Tucker (2006:960), that "the full potential of language is reduced under the influence of the context of culture and the context of situation", which maintains the relationship between meaning potential and instance.
The "invasion thesis" is fuelled by the use of language that reduces the status of those who have fled from Syria, Eritrea and other failing states in the biggest movement of displaced people since the second world war to the single word of "illegals".
First, revision theory fixes the use, in assertion and argument, of sentences of the expanded language but without reducing the sentences to those of the ground language.
The same play with volume and space governs the design of Lutyens's masterpieces such as Viceroy's House (now the Presidential Palace), New Delhi (1912 30), and the Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, Thiepval, France (1928 30), in which he reduced the language of the Classical orders to an almost abstract synthesis.
Language, depleted of poetry, reduced to information, is no longer an art that reveals and makes the world intelligible (home,) it merely describes the structures that incarcerate us.
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