While Brunetti echoes the disdain for reductive distinctions between high and low that comics defenders have employed since the critic Gilbert Seldes praised "Krazy Kat" in 1924, he imposes a hierarchy of his own.
Evidently, Prince and Uhry, who make the same reductive distinctions — between the liberated and the repressed, the lighthearted and the gloomy, the free-spirited and the cerebral — throughout the show, believe that the subtlety and intelligence that the real Weill and Lenya brought to their work wouldn't fly on Broadway, would be deemed too "European".
And so we should recognize a distinction between reductive and non-reductive forms of representationalism or intentionalism about consciousness (Chalmers 2004).
Over the years we have tended to stick with "illegal immigrant", although on occasion we have simply referred to "illegals", a word many find offensively reductive (my colleague explored the distinction in more detail a couple of years ago).
So, just as haecceitism requires clarifying the nature of this metaphysical distinction, criteria for distinguishing the reductive and non-reductive approaches to personal identity also rely heavily on the idea that certain properties are uniquely tied to the identity of individuals.
Shaftesbury's priority is reductive, having its ground in the distinction between representative and original beauty.
In a follow-up article, Steven Savitt (1974) introduced the distinction between ontologically conservative (reductive) and ontologically radical (eliminative) theory change, which helped to further clarify and distinguish the central claims of eliminative materialism as it is understood today.
From a historical point of view, the positivist model collapsed the distinction between synchronic and diachronic reduction, or between reductive models of the structure and the evolution or succession of science.
Since it gives negative advice, telling us when not to make a distinction among things, it is reductive in orientation, and we might call it one example of a principle of parsimony.
This distinction motivates different version of non-reductive physicalism.
Because non-reductive physicalist theories attempt to both retain the ontological distinction between mind and body and to try to solve the "surfeit of explanations puzzle" in some way; critics often see this as a paradox and point out the similarities to epiphenomenalism, in that it is the brain that is seen as the root "cause" not the mind, and the mind seems to be rendered inert.
