Sentence examples for reductive theory from inspiring English sources

One Jason Statham movie is much like any other, or at least that's the reductive theory.

A reductive theory of dreams might have it that they all concern sex or death.

Nominalism, for example, can be regarded as a reductive theory about kinds.

Abelard, for example, suggests that his reductive theory is a direct consequence of Aristotle's second definition of relations.

The ultimate acceptability of premise (2) of the above argument will turn on whether some reductive theory of the nature of colors is defensible.

Moreover, in contrast to nearly all versions of abstractionism, combinatorialism shares with concretism the virtue of a reductive theory of modality: Modal statements, ultimately, are true or false in virtue of how things stand with respect to worlds that are themselves defined in non-modal terms.

Our great cultural error is to assume that 'truth' arrives only through reductive theories.

Memoirs that traffic in unmediated confession, however, or are too quick to interpret, make us feel more like a reluctant social worker listening to a patient's undigested ramblings and reductive theories about causality.

Desan has many crudely reductive theories — the most insistent being that Montaigne wrote essays about the world right now because he was covering up the truth that in the past his family were merchants, not lords — but he is a master of the micro-history of sixteenth-century Bordeaux.

After "Causation" the focus, at least of those interested in reductive theories, moved to counterfactual theories.

Reductive theories of what it is to be a value satisfy this description, and other kinds of theory may do so, as well.