First of all, there does not currently seem to be any convincing evidence that all truths are reducible to physics (just consider the problem of reducing mental truths to physical truths), and, secondly, physics itself does not even appear to form a coherent system (WW: 5).
Finally, realists who are also naturalists believe semantic properties are both real and reducible to non-semantic properties, though they disagree on exactly how to reduce them (e.g., Fodor 2008, Harman 1987).
If love is reducible to physical systems, then these systems can, theoretically, be manipulated.
But Father Pavel was murdered, apparently by a deranged young man, on August 5th.In any case the argument Ms Kizenko makes that the public role of a religion is not reducible to that of its hierachs, or their political partners—has a much wider application.
Indeed, the novel seems to round on the notion that sex redeems existence or at least the existence of women: "Two kinds of women existed in the world, Owen perceived: those with whom you have slept and those, a cruelly disproportionate but reducible number, with whom you haven't".
Systems acting as a whole may produce collective effects that are not reducible to a summation of the trajectories and subelements composing the system (Bishop 2004 and 2012).
The Gestalt theorists, Koehler and Koffka, had shown that the atomic units of perception and learning, namely, 'sense data' and 'the reflex arc,' are not elementary but derived and a structure is not reducible to the interaction of atomic units.
These are manifested in particular actions but are not reducible to those actions.
Broad is not willing to rule out a physicalistic reduction of chemistry and biology to physics: chemical and biological phenomena might, he believes, very well be reducible to complex microphysical processes.
In other words, all wholes might be reducible to integral wholes.
