Sentence examples for reductive form from inspiring English sources

It's the Quantified Self in its most reductive form.

Disappointingly, there was no such display here; it would have been interesting to see what kind of art was inspired by a group renowned for a particularly yelpy, reductive form of punk-pop.

Although more time-consuming, this is a fairer and more accurate measure of ability and attainment, and it liberates teachers and students from the distorting tyranny of the exam hamster-wheel, which replaces education with a reductive form of training.

In between are too few of the swaggering compositions — of target-like concentric stripes, designs based on compasses and protractors, and shaped canvases that echo the shapes painted on them — that made Stella a god of the sixties art world, exalting tastes for reductive form, daunting scale, and florid artificial color.

Because reads detected in 16S rRNA gene library were closest to the sulfate reducing microbes, we conclude that both hot spring communities preferably generate the reductive form of sulfur compounds (Fig. 6).

The creation of analytic geometry in the seventeenth century introduced a more reductive form of analysis, and an analogous and even more powerful form was introduced around the turn of the twentieth century in the logical work of Frege and Russell.

The unifying thread is a kind of magpie postminimalism, which invigorates familiar abstract strategies -- grids, serial repetition, reductive forms -- using materials scavenged from everyday life.

He remained in business full time until the late 1980s, when architectural tastes had shifted to postmodernism, a style that rebelled against Modernism's reductive forms to include decorative ornament and an often willful pastiche of historical references.

If he criticizes idealism for its "sick-room air," he criticizes reductive forms of materialism for denying to "our most intimate powers…all relevancy in universal affairs" (WB 71).

And so we should recognize a distinction between reductive and non-reductive forms of representationalism or intentionalism about consciousness (Chalmers 2004).

In light of this, it is perhaps unsurprising that several philosophers have argued that ethical supervenience theses support reductionist forms of ethical realism against non-reductive forms (Jackson 1998, Ridge 2007, Brown 2011).