I worry that if I restrict myself to the term reductivism won't obscure all of this. From Wordnik.com. [Larval Subjects .] Reference
Carl asks why I don't simply refer to the Hegemonic Fallacy as "reductivism", and wonders if I simply take pleasure in naming. From Wordnik.com. [Larval Subjects .] Reference
But my point is that rather than viewing Stein’s concentration on a grammatical structure, her focus on style, as opposed to a generic form, as a kind of reductivism, one should understand it as an attempt to expand the restrictions normally imposed by the structures of narrative art. From Wordnik.com. [Gertrude Stein] Reference
Hans Kelsen retains the imperativalists 'monism but abandons their reductivism. From Wordnik.com. [Legal Positivism] Reference
His non-reductivism in the philosophy of action bears a greater resemblance to that defended by Von Wright (1971). From Wordnik.com. [Robin George Collingwood] Reference
There is one motive for reductivism that does not operate simply on the ethical, or on the non-ethical, but tends to reduce every consideration to one basic kind. From Wordnik.com. [Value Pluralism] Reference
I wish people who blame lefty intellectualism for this reductivism would name some names, because all the social theorists I know are acutely aware of the power of these forces. From Wordnik.com. [Getting Your Socially Constructed Groove On | PopPolitics.com] Reference
With these clarifications in mind, let us turn now to the considerations that led some medieval philosophers to reject reductive realism in favor of some form of non-reductivism. From Wordnik.com. [Medieval Theories of Relations] Reference
It is curious, as I look at the things in my own life: my own failures that led to success, my sometimes asinine reductivism concerning eras that were quite complicated, yet I still shrug and say "it all sucked.". From Wordnik.com. [luck is the residue of design] Reference
I've argued that between Dennett's reductivism, materialist commitment, and otherwise, his thoughts on intentionality and belief lead to a meaning of those words that sets him far apart from what people normally mean or expect. From Wordnik.com. [Blurring the Line] Reference
Nor is reductivism any more plausible here: we speak of legal obligations when there is no probability of sanctions being applied and when there is no provision for sanctions (as in the duty of the highest courts to apply the law). From Wordnik.com. [Legal Positivism] Reference
I have thought that traditional methods of the humanities — the interpretation of text in its linguistic as well as historical richness — has suffered somewhat in legal scholarship in recent years under a certain economics-oriented reductivism. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Robert Tsai on ‘Eloquence and Reason’] Reference
I think I see what Dr. Adams's difficulty was: these two chapters and the other remarks I have quoted occur in the last eleven-and-a-half chapters of the book, which seem to have slipped by him somehow, resulting in a curious reductivism on his part. From Wordnik.com. [Shrinking Literature] Reference
This is best understood as an attempt to preserve the empirical applicability of the formal languages constructed by way of explication for the contested concepts of scientific methodology, but not as reductivism with regard to some foundational given. From Wordnik.com. [Vienna Circle] Reference
Collingwood's dual aspect theory, like Davidson's, rejects ontological or substance dualism, but Collingwood's non-reductivism, unlike Davidson's, is grounded not in a theory of supervenience which grants ontological priority to the explanatory framework of natural science but in a metaphysically neutral monism grounded in his epistemological reform of metaphysics. From Wordnik.com. [Robin George Collingwood] Reference
In part Carl is right in pointing out that all I'm referring to is reductivism. From Wordnik.com. [Larval Subjects .] Reference
Loving v. Virginia references and its 'Blacks got their rights too' reductivism. From Wordnik.com. [Queerty] Reference
That's ancillary to the point, which is the astonishing racial reductivism of Matt's suggestion. From Wordnik.com. [Anchor Rising] Reference
But unmentioned by Saltz is how the artist's characteristic LCD reductivism can occasionally wind up being an asset. From Wordnik.com. [post.thing.net - A lean, mean, media machine.] Reference
The OOO folk contended that reductivism fails to recognize that objects exist at multiple levels of scale and are irreducible to one another. From Wordnik.com. [Larval Subjects .] Reference
People always seem to misunderstand or not get this theory, and so the teacher must constantly descend into it with correctives of reductivism. From Wordnik.com. [Second Thoughts] Reference
An outgrowth of that discussion, this collection of essays touches on such latter-day hipster arcana as technological reductivism and chillwave. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
I mention some, just some, of the things that constitute a good definition of what a painting consists of to ask this question: at what point, as reductivism takes hold, how much can be omitted before a painting ceases to be a painting and becomes if it is to be considered a work of art, a conceptual object sharing perhaps some physical properties, characteristics/commonalities but little else, with what we can define as an actual painting?. From Wordnik.com. [SHARKFORUM: OPINION WITH TEETH] Reference
She suggests that there are "many maps, many windows" on reality and argues that "we need scientific pluralism - the recognition that there are many independent forms and sources of knowledge - rather than reductivism, the conviction that one fundamental form underlies them all and settles everything" and that it is helpful to think about the world as "a huge aquarium. From Wordnik.com. [Serendip's Exchange -] Reference
So much for anti-reductivism. From Wordnik.com. [Palestine Blogs aggregator]
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