In response, one route that positivists who want to be reductionists could take is to maintain that legal facts really are descriptive in nature, not genuinely normative.
Finally, it can be reductionist to attribute the radicalization of certain youth in Western societies solely to the failure of integration.
"It would be reductionist to suggest there's a rerun going on," Mr. de Blasio said.
"I don't see how nature can be reductionist," Spenser whispered to Heather.
Most models that seek to characterise the delivery of diffuse pollutants from land to water are reductionist.
Let's concede that this kind of comparison can be reductionist.
The notion that simply eating wild salmon, goji berries, or miso is the key to health is reductionist and silly if one's diet is otherwise largely composed of highly-processed and refined food products.
To be totally reductionist, you are talking about killing people today rather than saving lives tomorrow.
"If you're going to be overly reductionist, then you're behaving stupidly," he said.
While he is happy to be a reductionist about non-conscious features of the mind, like intelligence, or intuitive decision-making, he is less sanguine about feelings themselves.
