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incapable of being made smaller or simpler; "an irreducible minimum"; "an irreducible formula"; "an irreducible hernia"
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| irreducible |
In philosophy, irreducibility has the sense that a complete account of an entity will not be possible at lower levels of explanation. Another way to state this is that Ockham's razor requires the elimination of only those entities that are unnecessary, not as many entities as could conceivably be eliminated. ...
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| irreducible |
to reduce Xs to Ys would be to show how Xs were, in reality, only Ys or in a linguistic guise to show that X-talk could be systematically eliminated in favour of Y-talk in a way involving no loss of content. Properties are said to be irreducible then, if they resist such reductions.
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| irreducible h. |
incarcerated h.
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