Reductive Sentence Examples

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  • To call this situation " farcical " seems reductive.

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  • What Henryson is concerned with is a highly reductive reading of Chaucer's text.

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  • The answer is a somewhat reductive, very uncomplicated ' not a lot ' .

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  • Back-row blogger on... comparing artists Isn't a ' compare and contrast ' approach to art rather reductive, asks Charlotte Higgins.

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  • His hylomorphism, then, embraces neither reductive materialism nor Platonic dualism.

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  • At its most extreme consciousness is said, by reductive materialists like Francis Crick, to be nothing but physical brain changes.

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  • Return to text We will be discussing Jones's notion of " reductive modernism " below.

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  • More than not, however, reductive realists object to non-reductivists on grounds of theoretical parsimony.

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  • This extremely reductive idea of painting is one reason why Greenberg's concept of modernist fell out of favor in the 1960s.

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  • Chlorinated solvents may be amenable to biodegradation through the process of reductive dechlorination in natural aquifer systems.

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  • That is, he will resist any reductive account of life.

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  • I found this a somewhat mechanical and reductive approach, which was too confident in finding singular interpretations for each phase of Titanic remembrance.

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  • What Henryson is concerned with is a highly reductive reading of Chaucer 's text.

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  • The answer is a somewhat reductive, very uncomplicated ' not a lot '.

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  • Back-row blogger on... comparing artists Is n't a ' compare and contrast ' approach to art rather reductive, asks Charlotte Higgins.

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  • This extremely reductive idea of painting is one reason why Greenberg 's concept of modernist fell out of favor in the 1960s.

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  • Lotze's procedure is, indeed, analogous to the way in which, in his philosophy of nature, he starts from a plurality of real beings, but by means of a reductive movement, an application of Kant's transcendental method, arrives at the postulate or fact of a law of their reciprocal action which calls for a monistic and idealist interpretation.

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  • In fact, it is this last sort of view that most reductive realists during the medieval period actually hold.

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