Sentence examples for may be reductionist from inspiring English sources

Updike's view of ordinary Americans may be reductionist or genteel, but at least he has one.

But as we have already noted, Shaftesbury did not reduce beauty to subjective mental states, while Hutcheson's account of beauty may be reductionist in this way (i.e., ultimately based on the experience of the pleasures of an internal sense of beauty).

They argue leadership is too socially/culturally embedded and explanations taken from outside the local social culture may be reductionist or translations that obscure important variables.

Utilitarians, in other words, may be reductionists, justifiably ignoring the "distinctness" between persons — and the distributive principles such a distinction might support — because the non-identity of persons is just a less deep fact (Parfit 1984, 329 345; see also Broome 1991 for a reductionist-based argument in support of utilitarianism's account of goodness).

"I don't see how nature can be reductionist," Spenser whispered to Heather.

Let's concede that this kind of comparison can be reductionist.

Here we advance the idea that increased understanding may be achieved through iterative reductionist and holistic approaches.

The naturalist is likely to reject this mode of inquiry, while other reductionists may be more amenable to using it.

These latter theorists, who reject both Schoeman's coherence thesis and distinctiveness thesis, may be referred to as reductionists, for they view what are called privacy concerns as analyzable or reducible to claims of other sorts, such as infliction of emotional distress or property interests.

More reductionist models may be better suited to identify the mechanistic background for our observation of direct cardioprotection [ 15].

While tools based on such quantitative evidence can be used to make explicit comparisons between service configurations for a locality, our consultation found that tools like a DAM may be perceived as threatening and reductionist by clinicians, local public health staff and service commissioners.