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    that reductionism is "one of the most used and abused terms in the philosophical lexicon" and suggests a three-part division: Ontological reductionism: a...
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  • Adolph Reed claims that class reductionism is a "myth", accusing those who use the term of instead engaging in "race reductionism". Economism Intersectionality...
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  • Greedy reductionism, identified by Daniel Dennett, in his 1995 book Darwin's Dangerous Idea, is a kind of erroneous reductionism. Whereas "good" reductionism...
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  • reductionism is the belief that understanding genes is sufficient to understand all aspects of human behavior. It is a specific form of reductionism and...
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  • common words Definite article reduction, use of vowel-less forms of the English definite article in Northern England Reductionism, a range of philosophical...
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  • Redox (redirect from Reduction (chemistry))
    Redox (/ˈrɛdɒks/ RED-oks, /ˈriːdɒks/ REE-doks, reduction–oxidation or oxidation–reduction: 150 ) is a type of chemical reaction in which the oxidation...
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  • Reductionism is a form of improvised music that developed towards the end of the 20th century, centered in Berlin, London, Tokyo, and Vienna. The key characteristics...
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  • science Systems theory Thomas Nagel (1998). "Reductionism and antireductionism" (PDF). The Limits of Reductionism in Biology: Novartis Foundation Symposium...
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    Reductions (Spanish: reducciones, also called congregaciones; Portuguese: redução, pl. reduções) were settlements established by Spanish rulers and Roman...
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  • Redox potential (also known as oxidation / reduction potential, ORP, pe, E r e d {\displaystyle E_{red}} , or E h {\displaystyle E_{h}} ) is a measure...
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  • Reduction of capital or capital reduction is to decrease stock of a company. During reduction of capital, sometimes the company returns a portion of the...
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  • as complex cause, causal oversimplification, causal reductionism, root cause fallacy, and reduction fallacy, is an informal fallacy of questionable cause...
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  • Reduction of order (or d’Alembert reduction) is a technique in mathematics for solving second-order linear ordinary differential equations. It is employed...
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  • Risk reduction may refer to: Health Absolute risk reduction or relative risk reduction, statistical descriptors of an intervention. Harm reduction, in...
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  • Log reduction is a measure of how thoroughly a decontamination process reduces the concentration of a contaminant. It is defined as the common logarithm...
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    Reduction mammoplasty (also breast reduction and reduction mammaplasty) is the plastic surgery procedure for reducing the size of large breasts. In a breast...
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  • In computer science, graph reduction implements an efficient version of non-strict evaluation, an evaluation strategy where the arguments to a function...
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    In mathematics, a reductive group is a type of linear algebraic group over a field. One definition is that a connected linear algebraic group G over a...
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  • Dimensionality reduction, or dimension reduction, is the transformation of data from a high-dimensional space into a low-dimensional space so that the...
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    without a keyboard (e.g. a string quartet). A reduction for solo piano is sometimes called a piano reduction or piano score. During opera rehearsals, a répétiteur...
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  • Data reduction is the transformation of numerical or alphabetical digital information derived empirically or experimentally into a corrected, ordered...
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    A reduction drive is a mechanical device to shift rotational speed. A planetary reduction drive is a small scale version using ball bearings in an epicyclic...
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  • acceptable proof, Quine maintains that reductionism is another "metaphysical article of faith". Instead of reductionism, Quine proposes that it is the whole...
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    Spot reduction refers to the claim that fat in a certain area of the body can be targeted for reduction through exercise of specific muscles in that desired...
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  • Penis reduction or penis reduction surgery refers to efforts or an assortment of techniques intended to decrease the girth or length of the human penis...
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    In archaeology, in particular of the Stone Age, lithic reduction is the process of fashioning stones or rocks from their natural state into tools or weapons...
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  • The term population reduction may refer to: Population decline or depopulation, reductions in human population levels for reasons such as low birth rate...
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  • States patent law, the reduction to practice is the step in the formation of an invention beyond the conception thereof. Reduction to practice may be either...
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  • In organochlorine chemistry, reductive dechlorination describes any chemical reaction which cleaves the covalent bond between carbon and chlorine via...
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  • In the mathematical field of graph theory, a transitive reduction of a directed graph D is another directed graph with the same vertices and as few edges...
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