Sentence examples for reductive definition from inspiring English sources

But this should be taken as a heuristic guide only, not as a reductive definition, since parthood is really a three-place relation, so the crude approximation does not even express a proposition according to Hudson.

Empiricist philosophers of science used to believe that the concepts in higher order sciences could be reduced, either by means of reductive definition or by 'bridging laws', to those in the more basic sciences.

The supervenience of fitness on a vast and heterogeneous base makes such a reductive definition impossible and as we have seen the ecological characterization in terms of "design problems" has its limits as well.

Rather than search for a reductive definition, causality is accepted as a primitive notion, and the causal model framework formalizes and clarifies the relations between causal models, probability, interventions, and counterfactuals (see Pearl, /2009 2000; Sloman, 2005).

We wrestle with reductive definitions that encourage us to think of people as categories rather than unique human beings.

It is possible that the act of love in question never takes place; certainly the book makes us question our reductive sexual definition of the phrase.

(1) We have explained above that Z G ( T d ) ≃ η H R. This last group is loop reductive by definition since η is a loop cocycle.

In the course of the proof of Theorem 12.1 we showed that up to conjugacy by an element of G ( k ), we can assume that σ normalizes the standard parabolic group P I and also the standard Levi subgroup L I. We have explained above that Z G ( T d ) ≃ η H R. This last group is loop reductive by definition since η is a loop cocycle.

As for the gay thing, I find that definition incredibly reductive for people like myself who feel alienated from gay culture and its mindless hedonism".

Like the best essayistic works, it makes meaning through all its disparate parts rubbing up against one another, challenging reductive narrative and straightforward definition, instead highlighting the slipperiness of language.

The definition of naturally reductive homogeneous Finsler spaces is a natural generalization of the definition of naturally reductive Riemannian homogeneous spaces.