Adjective : the irreducible minimum. From Dictionary.com.
No scientist argues that what you call irreducibly complex emerged by "chance". From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
They'll point out that in irreducibly complex systems even the slightest deviation will produce results fatal to an organism. From Wordnik.com. [An Important Message] Reference
Ack, I can't believe that little sleep caused me to miss the "irreducibly" -- thank you Mike!. From Wordnik.com. [The essential paradigm of cyberspace] Reference
"'' No scientist argues that what you call irreducibly complex emerged by" chance ". From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Ask yourself what is the lowest number of components in a system that could be called irreducibly complex. From Wordnik.com. [Teach the Controversy] Reference
But are their certain sets (or sequences) of actions, or procedures, "irreducibly" necessary for producing specific results?. From Wordnik.com. [A Different Perspective on Irreducible Complexity] Reference
ID advocates, such as irreducibly complex function of its systems. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Such systems are called irreducibly complex. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
Its grace lies in presenting one irreducibly strong and simple metaphor. From Wordnik.com. [Francis Alÿs: A Story of Deception; Ernesto Neto: The Edges of the World] Reference
Indeed, he coined the term "irreducibly complex" to explain such structures. From Wordnik.com. [Intelligent Design: Scientifically and Religiously Bankrupt] Reference
Our first frustration is with data that is, in any moment, irreducibly imperfect. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Hindes: Think for Yourself: Is it Regrettable but Acceptable to Kill Civilians?] Reference
Change anything at all in these irreducibly complex structures and they fail to work. From Wordnik.com. [Intelligent Design: Scientifically and Religiously Bankrupt] Reference
In this primitive sense the Home Stone is simply that, and irreducibly, the Home Stone. From Wordnik.com. [Magicians of Gor]
When you get down far enough, there are a few things that are irreducibly male or female. From Wordnik.com. [Mind Of A Man: Bridging Our Differences] Reference
There aren't two sorts of natural phenomena: the irreducibly subjective and the objective. From Wordnik.com. [Qualia] Reference
The principle is irreducibly simple: one after the other, from this angle and then from that. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Creed: Down Over Up; Richard Wright: The Stairwell Project; Joan Mitchell] Reference
It is also the proper response to a biological phenomenon that appears to be irreducibly complex. From Wordnik.com. [The God Delusion]
No matter how complex or unfathomable the works may seem, their elements remain irreducibly simple. From Wordnik.com. [Jannis Kounellis] Reference
One possibility is that truthmakers for psychological truths include irreducibly mental properties. From Wordnik.com. [Mental Causation] Reference
What is self-evidently, indubitably, incontrovertibly, irreducibly, and indelibly the case is that. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Gains More Super-Delegates, AP Says He Now Leads] Reference
This is surely what is most irreducibly unique about us, and thus what grounds a universal moral code. From Wordnik.com. [Archbishop - Religious Faith and Human Rights] Reference
"Is the mousetrap irreducibly complex?" the Iowa State University molecular biologist asked the class. From Wordnik.com. [At Some Colleges,] Reference
The big question facing pluralism is whether rational choices can ever be made between irreducibly plural values. From Wordnik.com. [Value Pluralism] Reference
The crucial thought is that there are various bases of moral responsiveness, and these bases are irreducibly plural. From Wordnik.com. [Value Pluralism] Reference
Once naturalism is dropped, however, we can see what Moore thought self-evident: that there are irreducibly many goods. From Wordnik.com. [Moore's Moral Philosophy] Reference
Joseph Raz takes the line that we can explain choice between irreducibly plural goods by talking about basic preferences. From Wordnik.com. [Value Pluralism] Reference
How much truer is that of something as irreducibly interconnected and complex as the redesign of 17% of the nation's economy?. From Wordnik.com. [A Poll Is Not a Vote] Reference
He regularly commented that the phenomena just do fall into three groups and that they just do display irreducibly triadic relations. From Wordnik.com. [Nobody Knows Nothing] Reference
The solution to the problems of free speech -- that sometimes people will say terrible things -- are always and irreducibly more free speech. From Wordnik.com. [Johann Hari: Despite the Riots and Threats, I Stand By What I Wrote] Reference
There's something in human nature that is irreducibly evil and has to be argued with, controlled -- I mean, controlled -- it has to be controlled. From Wordnik.com. [One Man's America: A Journalist's Search for the Heart of His Country] Reference
Behe had not kept himself informed about subsequent developments in finding evolutionary pathways showing that flagella are not irreducibly complex. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Like a mousetrap, the associate professor suggested, living cells are "irreducibly complex" -- they can't fulfill their functions without all of their parts. From Wordnik.com. [At Some Colleges,] Reference
So, one of the claims of intelligent design is that things are irreducibly complex, that there are some systems that cannot be explained by a process of evolution. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 8, 2005] Reference
The coexistence, consequently, within philosophy itself of two irrecon - cilable, irreducibly opposed tendencies is found, more - over, again in nearly every period. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
The atmospheric system of the Earth in total is irreducibly complex (pun intended again), it is utterly enormous, and it is resilient almost beyond human comprehension. From Wordnik.com. [The Hole in the Hole in the Ozone Layer] Reference
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