It has (very aptly) been remarked that Feigl's "semantic realism is an anti-reductive position" (Psillos 1999, p. 12).
Some, more sympathetic to the reductive realist position on relational change, take cases like that involving Simmias and Socrates as an opportunity to further clarify the nature of relations.
For the first half-hour or so, it appears to just be a shitty but innocuous thriller about the attempted invasion of Israel and a bunch of people randomly disappearing, but is actually a brutally reductive gospel tract that positioned a ragtag crew of post-Rapture believers who dubbed themselves the "Tribulation Force" against the literal Antichrist who, of course, was the former head of the UN.
One final argument used by reductive realists to motivate their position is worth mentioning here.
The amount and quality of C10SH SAM were determined from area and position, respectively, of reductive desorption peak of the SAM modified Au(1 1 1) electrode measured in 0.5 M KOH aqueous solution.
Most modern philosophers of mind adopt either a reductive or non-reductive physicalist position, maintaining in their different ways that the mind is not something separate from the body.
112b Together, these results suggest that methylated Cys338 properly positions SAM for reductive cleavage.
It was on this basis that Feigl saw himself in a position to avoid "the reductive fallacies of phenomenalism" (1950a, p. 35).
As shown in Figure 8, as v is increased by 2 orders of magnitude, the oxidative and reductive peaks shift from the midpoint position by over 110 mV, and the shape of the peak broadens by ∼50%.
And again, it is possible to view this position as a non-reductive conception of law, maintaining that legal validity cannot be reduced to non-normative facts.
By contrast, the claim that the distinction is purely semantic is congenial to a monist position, whether nomological (e.g., reductive materialism) or anomalous [Macdonald 1989].
