Sentence examples for reductive explanations from inspiring English sources

Inter-theoretic reduction may be dead but the biological principle of reduction [ 84], a commitment to try to reduce wherever possible, to create as many reductive explanations as possible, even in the absence of complete reduction, lives on.

It's a relief that we are mostly spared the reductive explanations of the characters' histories, though the actors clearly have them.

Meyer knows that reductive explanations aren't sufficient, and he moves deftly from the panoramic to the microscopic — from sweeping views of a dying valley to the quiet ruminations of a mind behind bars.

There is a tendency in particularly gruesome murder cases, such as that of Becky Watts, to refer back to simplistic and reductive explanations for offending, such as being 'evil' or inherently 'bad', in an attempt to make sense of such cases.

Instead, he assumes that reductive explanations are explanations without specifying what an explanation is, and then seeks to identify the features that set reductive explanations apart from other explanations.

(Schaffner (1998) points out how hard it is to supply reductive explanations even for simple model organisms).

Models of explanatory reduction typically assume that reductive explanation is causal explanation, where a higher level feature is explained by the interaction of constituent parts.

On its face, talk of grounding human morality in animal behavior is the kind of "lower language" of reductive explanation that might make Charles Taylor shudder.

"If you say it's for survival, or it's just for play, or it's a side-effect of other [adaptive] abilities, then that is a reductive explanation," he continues, condensing the other three curations into refutable bites.

The reductive explanation is that the shift hinges on one thing, which you can hear at its most brilliantly realised on With the Beatles, released in November: British musicians attempting to copy black Americans and stumbling on a sound entirely of their own – raw, swaggering, exuberant – in the process.

Ferguson rolled his own eyes over an earlier what-if anthology, edited by J. C. Squire in 1932, for the way it made counter-factualism a "jeu d'esprit, a vehicle for wishful thinking or reductive explanation — and, above all, high table humour".