| 单词 | irreducible |
| 例句 | At what point we reach the irreducible bottom is not easy to say. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Because, on the scale of the very small, matter exhibits some irreducible roughness. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Something irreducibly human, or male, threatened the order of their household, and Briony knew that unless she helped her sister, they would all suffer. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Death is the irreducible common denominator of all men. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Dalton’s simple insight was that at the root of all matter are exceedingly tiny, irreducible particles. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z No doubt I am guilty of some injustice here, but it is irreducible, since I cannot risk assuming that the humanity of these people is more real to them than their uniforms. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z The ethos of atomic physics—the relentless drive to find irreducible particles, universal mechanisms, and systematic explanations—would soon permeate biology and drive the discipline toward new methods and new questions. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Yet his subject here is not so much war, which is irreducibly specific; he cares more about the psychological harm wrought by war, which is grimly universal. Im Heung-soon Explores the Horrors Women Endure in War 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z This typically impassive structure here serves as a meeting point where the impulse to reduce everything to numbers meets the irreducible physicality of the body. For Ellen Lesperance and Helen Mirra, the message is woven into the art 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z Maybe philosophical problems are hard not because they are divine or irreducible or meaningless or workaday science, but because the mind of Homo sapiens lacks the cognitive equipment to solve them. Marilynne Robinson: Can science solve life's mysteries? 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z While Choi was interested in the possible unreality of her characters, Hall’s theme in “Trinity” turns out to be the cast’s irreducible mysteriousness. Susan Choi’s “Trust Exercise” and the Question of Appropriating Other People’s Lives as Fiction 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z Like the bodies she paints, her peculiarities are stubbornly present, convincing, insistent and irreducible. Review | Suzanne Valadon modeled for some of the world’s greatest artists. Then she became one. 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Although his films range widely in their idiosyncratic themes and settings, they are of a piece in their serene melancholy and their loving attention to the unruly details and irreducible dimensions of individual lives. ?Letters From the Big Man,? Starring Lily Rabe 2011-11-04T22:01:54Z But to Mr. Pollock, what makes a work a classic is not its familiarity and universality but its utter, irreducible strangeness. Murty Classical Library Catalogs Indian Literature 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z “We’ve been trying to move backwards, to a more irreducible core,” he said. Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena, 48, wins the Pritzker Prize 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Shouldn’t writing that aspires to be autonomous and irreducible consist for the most part of screaming and falling? A Writer’s Justification 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z What can transform the humble ingredients of breakfast into an irreducible vehicle of love? The New York Times should eat its words: breakfast is for champions 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Schwartzman speaks inescapably like himself; he’s among the most classical of contemporary movie actors in this regard, in that he is, irreducibly and unalterably, always himself. The Actor as Intellectual Artist in “Listen Up Philip” 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z Fahey continues to be a useful key to people like Mr. Tyler, and there are always going to be people like Mr. Tyler, looking for the irreducible essences in American art. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-11-22T23:10:00Z Strict commitment to a set of irreducible beliefs and doctrines, which fundamentalists of every religious stripe maintain, is a big, fat, even irresistible target for a cartoonist — and it drives the object of ridicule crazy. At satire's forefront, cartoons press against hard lines 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z Everts also examines the cultural obsession with pheromones, and the idea that odor messages are somehow irreducibly authentic. Scents and Science Mingle in ‘The Joy of Sweat’ 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z I suspect Hollywood is already circling around this story, trying to figure out how Constance can be stripped of her irreducible oddness and transformed into a Civil War Lara Croft. In Hunt’s ‘Neverhome,’ natural poetry from a young wife who fights for the Union He could pretend to be just about anything without letting go of the essential, irreducible fact of his personality. An Appraisal: Marvelous Invention of Movie Make-Believe 2010-10-01T23:18:00Z Tell me about the cinematic moments you personally consider to be irreducible, and why. Clip joint: Simplicity 2010-05-26T12:29:00Z There’s a speechless and irreducible quality to great art, a value that goes beyond communication or advocacy. Submerged in van Gogh: Would Absinthe Make the Art Grow Fonder? 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z It simply is, in all its irreducible complexity. Stephen Sondheim, the Man Who Felt Too Much 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z It's a fine sight gag that doesn't translate into words, and is in this sense irreducible. Bedwyr Williams: My Bad ? review 2012-05-19T23:05:32Z One can only guess how the irreducible ideas of freedom implicit in flying birds, even amid such scenes of stinking banality, would have salved the spirits of these resilient men. Birds in a Cage: Warburg, Germany, 1941 by Derek Niemann - review 2012-12-20T08:00:01Z The point of a tango album by Rubén Blades, one of the irreducible creative wellsprings of salsa, might best be illustrated by a new arrangement of his best-known song. Trey Songz, OOIOO and Rubén Blades Release New Music 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z But when the problems addressed are irreducibly political and therefore collective problems, the genre’s frame renders them insoluble. How to Pay for College (and Not Lose Your Shirt) 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z These are texts, finally, to read and revisit, lean, oracular, irreducible. Elusive leaps of grace and daring: Rachel Cusk's 'Kudos' 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z It is a metonymy that suggests that the irreducible lives and fates of the dispossessed are not this show’s concern, and certainly haven’t been “recovered” as we were promised at the outset. In ‘Afterlives,’ About Looted Art, Why Are the Victims an Afterthought? 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Aravena sees it as the irreducible limit of what a chair can be, the moment when the noun "chair" becomes the verb "to sit". When is a chair not a chair? 2010-04-19T12:12:00Z And not, mind you, in a generational, the-times-are-a-changin’ transference of power, but in the irreducible facts of his days. Mad Men Watch: Are You There, God? It’s Me, Mad Men 2013-06-03T14:34:29Z To Robinson, there was one irreducible truth about his own life, a truth that transcended Cooperstown. Jackie Robinson’s Inner Struggle 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z The aspects of his temperament held up for mockery — the hyper-intellectualism, the snobbery, the irreducible Jewishness — doubled as weapons of seduction. My Woody Allen Problem 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z A snapshot that ends up feeling like a panorama, irreducible and immersive. The Best Albums of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Mind and consciousness represent a fundamental and irreducible property of the Ground of Being. Is aggression genetic? 2012-05-28T22:00:00Z The Bible, then, is not only an irreducibly political text but one that is profoundly complex and intractable, with a discomfiting tendency to cut across our natural political categories. The political Bible, part 1: A foundation for British attitudes 2011-08-09T09:40:00Z There’s a gap — or a lag, maybe — between how new technologies can reduce our personhood to data, and the irreducible facts of our bodies, our health, our need to eat and sleep. Josh Kline’s Survival Art for 21st-Century America 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Berlin’s answer was that Tolstoy was a fox who thought he was a hedgehog: He wanted to have a general system, but what he demonstrated instead was the teeming and irreducible complexity of war. A New Look at Civilian Life in Europe Under Hitler 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z I save the word “art” for works that are enigmatic — irreducibly so. Mark de Silva talks about his novel 'Square Wave,' a paean to process 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z This is a moment of clarity, in which all of the women in the room witness together both the necessity of forgiveness and its irreducible complications, its transformative power alongside its dangerous amenability to injustice. After abuse,"Women Talking" challenges the misuse and metamorphosis of forgiveness 2023-02-04T05:00:00Z The revelation is that, in spite of all the technocratic global homogenisations of our age, the human being remains a vast, irreducible mystery. Lucian Freud storms the Pompidou Centre 2010-03-16T21:35:00Z Certainly, Murnane is interested in what part of consciousness—of sensation, of emotion—might be shareable and what part is irreducibly individual, a private territory. A Strange Australian Masterpiece About Our Relationship to the Land 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z This mother-son spirit mingling may be incredibly lovely, but it’s also irreducibly creepy. Review | Fresh off a Pulitzer win for ‘The Overstory,’ Richard Powers delivers another environmental ode 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z A House of Drone, Ecstatic and Raw, With a Potent Aura of Largess There’s an irreducible element of music that connects metal, industrial music, power electronics and classical minimalism, and no word exists for it. Music Review: ‘Drone Activity in Progress,’ at the Knockdown Center 2013-05-03T21:54:26Z Honda takes a structural approach to the irreducible physical facts of film. 'Made in L.A. 2016': Hammer Museum biennial proves a thoughtful place to ponder the possibilities 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z There’s something pleasing, I said, about the illusion of an irreducible unity. The Ugly Truth 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z None of which was an issue for the three improvising guitarists on the bill, each a distinct and irreducible highlight of the evening. Review: BRIC JazzFest in Brooklyn Wraps Up With a Mesh of Styles 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z The weaving forms a completely efficient, irreducible whole: figure and ground are one and visible to the same degree from both sides. Art Review: ?Kindred Spirits? at Peter Blum Gallery in SoHo 2011-12-22T23:13:25Z Many prairie towns have faded to an irreducible half-life and are preserves, even in local speech habits, of earlier times. Thomas McGuane on Small-Town America 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z At some point taste, like talent, becomes an irreducible entity. What Does It Mean to Be a “Real” Writer? 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z A good novel, after all, is irreducible, but social commentary isn’t. Writing middle-aged men in crisis: Novelists Lindsay Stern and Andrew Ridker in conversation 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Centered on an obese con man and his deaf-mute son, Mr. Shirvani’s film seems at once angry and exuberant, but mostly, it is irreducibly and excitingly strange, like a bulletin from the future. Critic’s Notebook: Film Comment Selects Festival Offers 22 Intriguing Picks 2014-02-13T22:30:25Z But there is some irreducible ugliness in his masterpiece that really can’t be convincingly redeemed. “Snow White and the Huntsman”: A would-be fantasy classic 2012-05-30T23:00:00Z “I am reduced to my irreducible self,” the poet and essayist Wendell Berry wrote in “An Entrance to the Woods,” after camping alone along Kentucky’s Red River Gorge. The Case for Covering Your Ears in Noisy Times 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z The power of the painting lies in part in its confusing but irreducible mixture of motives. Gauguin: Into the mystic 2010-10-01T23:06:00Z What I mean by this is, in America, there is a prevailing miasma, an irreducible, un-diagnosable discontent among the living. “I should be among the dead”: Young, white, and economically advantaged, I was hungry for meaning and found heroin instead 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z “Obama’s record was irreducibly messy and complex, not unlike the world in which he tried to govern,” Mr. Savage concludes. Review: Charlie Savage’s ‘Power Wars’ Dissects Obama’s Evolution on National Security 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z And yet Patchett justly insists that the relationship between fact and fiction in “Commonwealth” remains irreducibly complex. ‘Commonwealth’: Ann Patchett’s masterful novel of family and family secrets 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z For Robyn to give you her annihilating sweetness, something irreducibly bitter had to come first. “Honey,” Reviewed: Robyn Has Returned, and She Has What You Want 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z That less aggressive approach is winning a lot of new converts, but for veterans such as Barford it’s still an evangelical movement with an irreducible political message. The unstoppable rise of veganism: how a fringe movement went mainstream 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z Her good eye, empathy and finesse would get recast into the irreducibly complex realm of ethics. Sex, Death, Suffering and Surrealism, in New Books of Poetry 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z The principle is irreducibly simple: one after the other, from this angle and then from that. Martin Creed: Down Over Up; Richard Wright: The Stairwell Project; Joan Mitchell 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z He can be a difficult writer, not because his books are obscure or abstract, but rather because the writerly personality that emerges in their pages is irreducibly complicated. Wallace Stegner and the Conflicted Soul of the West 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z But don’t go for that reason; go because hearing this band, in this room, is one of the irreducible New York pleasures, now as ever. The Week Ahead: Aug. 8 ? Sept. 3 2011-08-28T04:30:07Z Here I am, having this irreducible and mysterious set of human experiences, and all you think when you encounter me is, Her hair is weird. What It Felt Like When “Cat Person” Went Viral 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Discussing art on the airwaves, he sought meaning in the materiality of the objects on view—showing that, even in reproduction, they were irreducibly physical, rather than ethereal or transcendent. When John Berger Looked at Death 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z We’ve been trying to move backwards, to a more irreducible core. Pritzker winner Alejandro Aravena on Pinochet, postmodernism and building a house for $7,500 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z The panoply of side characters and seemingly peripheral events and, for that matter, the very passing of time itself while the plot unfolds are central and irreducible elements of “Out 1.” Jacques Rivette’s Thirteen-Hour Experimental Film 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z In his 1949 essay “Comedy’s Greatest Era,” James Agee suggested that “Keaton’s face ranked almost with Lincoln’s as an early American archetype; it was haunting, handsome, almost beautiful, yet it was also irreducibly funny.” Review: ‘The Great Buster’ Brings a Deadpan Genius Back to Life 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z I will be looking to find a celebrated string quartet to take things to an irreducible minimum. Van Dyke Parks gives his 'final performance' on the piano 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z They’re so vast, with so many complex causes and effects, that they beggar our imaginations; they’re also irreducibly personal, shaping countless individual fates in ways we struggle to grasp. Sunday Reading: War Stories 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z As in her previous novels, King explores the dimensions of mourning with aching honesty, but in “Writers & Lovers” she’s leavened that sorrow with an irreducible sense of humor. Review | Lily King’s ‘Writers & Lovers’ delivers pure joy 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z Crisp, inventive and insightful, The Gurkha's Daughter paints an almost irreducibly plural picture, but exodus to the west is a shaping theme. The Gurkha's Daughter by Prajwal Parajuly – review 2013-01-25T22:55:01Z It’s an electrifying examination of the irreducible complexities of an ethical life. Review | Jonathan Franzen’s ‘Crossroads’ represents a marked evolution in a dazzling career 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z He talks about bodies pulled apart — that there’s an irreducible physicality to the violence that racism does. Retiring From Ballet at 26? Dancing Can Get You Only So Far 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z Implicit in these stories is an idea like the one my mother had of my Nana’s “true self”—an irreducible self still intact behind the disease’s neurofibrillary tangles and amyloid plaques. A Place Beyond Words: The Literature of Alzheimer’s 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z Like all of Kono’s characters, she invites our deep and sustained interest but remains ultimately irreducible. Sex, Death and More Sex: Three Books of Fiction by Acclaimed Japanese Writers 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z The irreducible mystery of human experience ties this small collection together, and in each of these stories McCann explores that theme in some strikingly effective ways. Sleeping giant Colum McCann awakens with new collection 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z Hyde wants us to see how some families found ways to endure, but there’s an irreducible grief that wends its way through this book. An Immersive History of Mixed-Descent Native Families 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z Joan Didion once wrote that because of its “irreducible ambiguities” fiction is “in many ways hostile to ideology.” Girl, Interrupted 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z It’s something that can’t be defined, only recognized—an irreducible and unteachable entity, like charisma or humor, and its confirmation all the more coveted for being so. What Does It Mean to Be a “Real” Writer? 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z The larger the integrated information, the more the circuit is irreducible, the less it can be considered just the superposition of independent subcircuits. What Does It ‘Feel’ Like to Be a Chatbot? 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z And astronomers say that, given irreducible gaps in our knowledge of ’Oumuamua, this new proposal may never be fully accepted either. Was ’Oumuamua, the First Known Interstellar Object, Less Weird Than We Thought? 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z “The Venezuelan people reiterate their firm and irreducible determination to defend our sovereignty.” Venezuela claims nearly three-quarters of Guyana. Guyana wants help. 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z With her red-lipped rictus grin, her eyes that can beam with earnestness one minute and deaden with murderous resignation the next, Goth makes a sublime demon, but she’s also a creature of irreducible pathos. The best movie performances of 2022 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z Hill had to confront the fact that therapy is irreducible to a set of abstract tools. Is It Toxic to Tell Everyone to Get Therapy? 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z "My quest is: How can I make these irreducible components of story clearer so that people will get it faster and better?" Streaming TV shows are 21st-century 'cathedrals', screenwriting guru McKee says 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z The privileging of fixed points in linear time nearly guaranteed the erasure of Native histories, irreducible to dated or datable events. Op-Ed: The monumental mortality of sequoias 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z "Congress mandated 10 hours irreducible rest in October 2018, but the prior administration put the rule on a process to kill it." U.S. set to finalize new flight attendant rest time rules -sources 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z A substance dualist, in reference to the mind problem, asserts that there are two fundamental and irreducible realities that are needed to fully explain the self. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z TRY IT #6 Find the partial fraction decomposition of the expression with a nonrepeating irreducible quadratic factor. College Algebra with Corequisite Support 2020-09-23T00:00:00Z This is referred to as an irreducible quadratic factor. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z In one fictional moment, he gives us something unmistakably, irreducibly real, partly by puncturing the fantasy of human invincibility that his co-star has never stopped trying to sell. Review: Tom Cruise flies high — again — in the exhilarating 'Top Gun: Maverick' 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z Campion respects his irreducible book: She doesn’t try to diagnose Phil. Page-to-Screen: 'The Power of the Dog' is an ideal adaptation of a neglected masterpiece 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z Odenkirk’s belief that truly great jokes carry some irreducible amount of anger — and that this anger’s noblest function is to torpedo pieties and hypocrisies — helps explain his lifelong commitment to sketch comedy. Bob Odenkirk’s Long Road to Serious Success 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z TRY IT #7 Find the partial fraction decomposition of the expression with a repeated irreducible quadratic factor. College Algebra with Corequisite Support 2020-09-23T00:00:00Z The decomposition will consist of partial fractions with linear numerators over each irreducible quadratic factor represented in increasing powers. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z And finally, the theological disagreements that his cult posed to Judaism and Christianity are irreducibly complex. Review | Olga Tokarczuk’s ‘The Books of Jacob’ is finally here. Now we know why the Nobel judges were so awestruck. 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z If the liberty and institutions of the American republic are to survive to the next generation, we will need to recapture our founding generation’s understanding of the irreducible political and religious meaning of liberty. Freedom comes from God, not men 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z For most of history, it was by no means obvious what was an irreducible material — what we now call a chemical element. Is science stuck? The "Great Stagnation Debate," explained 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z Branching out to consider the moral crises of the pastor’s wife and children, the novel presents an electrifying examination of the irreducible complexities of an ethical life. Review | The 10 best books of 2021 For the following exercises, find the decomposition of the partial fraction for the irreducible repeating quadratic factor. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z “Congress mandated 10 hours irreducible rest in October 2018, but the prior administration put the rule on a process to kill it.” U.S. FAA proposes minimum rest periods for flight attendants between shifts 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z There Madison learned of the irreducible unity of political and religious liberty, and of the foundation of liberty on the freedom of our conscience. Freedom comes from God, not men 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z “That doesn’t wipe away the irreducibly difficult choices that have to be made in terms of what do you do with friendly autocrats,” Mr. Fontaine said. Biden Campaigned as the Anti-Trump. But a Clean Break Is Never Easy. 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z This problem of irreducible difference, and the ways we might practice care and attention across that difference, feels like Nelson’s long-term project. Maggie Nelson Wants to Redefine ‘Freedom’ 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z TRY IT #4 Find the partial fraction decomposition of the expression with a repeated irreducible quadratic factor. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z He said the region may have reached an “irreducible minimum” of new cases, citing the lack of public motivation or political will for imposing new restrictions. Maryland jurisdictions mixed on moving to Phase 3; local leaders express worry 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z The theory precisely defines any one conscious experience as a maximum of intrinsic irreducible cause–effect power, quantified by its irreducibility, a non-zero number, Φ. Brain Bridging 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z The uncertainty seemed “huge and irreducible,” Smith says. Missed wind patterns are throwing off climate forecasts of rain and storms 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z Under the very best of circumstances, there will always be an irreducible role for state power in public safety. State violence, a crisis of legitimacy, and the path to true public safety 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z For the following exercises, find the decomposition of the partial fraction for the irreducible nonrepeating quadratic factor. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z The model captures nothing of the irreducibly unknown and unknowable in both costs and revenues. COVID-19 exposes the weakness of capitalism 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z It’s an unresolvable, irreducible achievement: a performance that captivated audiences on the strength of McDaniel’s salt-of-the-earth gusto and emotive power, but which undeniably used that strength to entrench a dangerous stereotype. What ‘The Help’ and ‘Gone With the Wind’ (don't) tell us about Hollywood's racial progress 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z “Whether robbed of their dignity by war, repression or poverty, or simply dreaming of a better future, they rely on their irreducible rights – and they look to us to help uphold them.” UN chief issues 7-point ‘call to action’ on human rights 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z But it's completely realistic to recognize the "irreducible" role of state power, and advocate and strive for "reduced as far as possible." State violence, a crisis of legitimacy, and the path to true public safety 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z TRY IT #3 Find the partial fraction decomposition of the expression with a nonrepeating irreducible quadratic factor. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z Felt volitional states are the irreducible foundation of both mind and world. Yes, Free Will Exists 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z “Foreign” is an odd designation for a movie about the challenge and irreducible complexity of American immigrant identity. 'The 1-inch-tall barrier of subtitles': Bong Joon Ho rightly calls out Hollywood myopia 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z Billy is an irreducible figure, grounded in the same sort of elemental silliness that keeps kids up at sleepover parties. Adam Sandler’s Everlasting Shtick 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z There is something not just convincing or persuasive but irreducibly honest about the complexity of experience we see here. Review: The Catholic Church abuse scandal hits France in 'By the Grace of God,' and the powerful drama will make you furious 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z The decomposition of with a nonrepeated irreducible quadratic factor needs a linear numerator over the quadratic factor, as in See Example 3. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z It sounded to me like a way of pointing out the irreducible loneliness of deciding to take charge. How the Security Democrats Came Around to Impeachment 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z The story imagines a world in which intellectuals have concluded that reality is irreducible and inexplicable. Pluralism: Beyond the One and Only Truth 2019-09-14T04:00:00Z No less than the higher electric rates and lower profits, these, too, are part of the irreducible costs of climate change. Perspective | California wildfire plan shows how we can adapt to threat of natural disasters 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z Certainly, I was aware of the larger concerns, the irrational, irreducible elements. “Uncle Jim Called” 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z I suspect that the future of our technology will be much more about irreducible computations. A Few Thoughts about Deep Fakes 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z But it's also computational irreducibility that in a sense means that history is significant: that there's something irreducible achieved by the course of history. A World Run with Code 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Some have dismissed the play as being thin to the point of evanescent, but that may be because it doesn’t satisfy the insatiable biographical hunger for answers that these irreducibly complex figures provoke. ‘Hillary and Clinton’ playwright Lucas Hnath meticulously masters the messiness of life 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z In this reckoning, Shakespeare is, irreducibly, both for and against Brexit. May as Polonius, Gove as Cassius: is Brexit a Shakespearean tragedy? 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z I recognized them for what they were, irrational and irreducible, as uncanny as they were compelling. “Uncle Jim Called” 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z Thinkers since ancient Greece, if not before, have found themselves obsessed with the true nature of the senses; even modern philosophers get tripped up discussing qualia, the irreducible stuff of consciousness. How A.S.M.R. Became a Sensation 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z The film’s beauty is complex and irreducible: Denis and Godard are justly transfixed by their subjects, but also too unflinching not to suggest the punishing severity and asceticism of their way of life. A retrospective on Claire Denis shows why she's one of the world's greatest directors 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z A bigger obstacle was controlling for the irreducible complexity of human behavior. The Hidden Air Pollution in Our Homes 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z This is not a story about death, that distinguished thing; it is an elegy for an irreducible person. Keeping Up with Amy Hempel 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z In admitting the possibility that information may be “a network of logically interdependent but mutually irreducible concepts,” Floridi seems to suggest even that such elusiveness is inherent and unresolvable. Physics Is Pointing Inexorably to Mind 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Ergo, these “irreducibly complex” systems must have been forged by a designer who made simultaneous changes in several genes. Review | Intelligent design gets even dumber 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z This objective should be supported by a set of irreducible principles that can be explained and spread with pride and conviction. Youth climate strikers can win their fight. Here’s a manifesto | George Monbiot 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z As a cosmologist, however, his principal question arises from a consideration not of the irreducibly small, but of the incomparably large. Maxwell’s demon and the hunt for alien life 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z And this, if Colette had a creed, might be where it lies: in an adamant insistence on the irreducibly individual – just as she, throughout her life, insisted on her own right to be so. Wild, controversial and free: Colette, a life too big for film 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z We are definitely on the edge of Keynes' irreducible uncertainty. Will 2019 Be a Good Year for Investors? Here Are 4 Key Factors Affecting Stocks and the Economy 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z Classical music, considered broadly, represents an irreducible font of sounds. The music industry sells classical as soothing background music — robbing a great art of its power. 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z The something that emerges is intangible, irreducible, unexplainable, but it is there, like a ghost, a memory, lingering. Los Angeles is refracted in all its irreducible, unexplainable glory in ‘Dear Los Angeles’ 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z But there’s another, nearly lost, democratic tradition, in which the goals of a democracy and a worthy civilization are irreducibly linked to the healthy development of its citizens along social, intellectual, and spiritual dimensions. We've settled on a shallow conception of democracy. And that's dangerous | Tim Wu 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Again, it seems connected to human beings’ irreducible quest for meaning and a connection to the everlasting. Opinion | The California fires remind us of our common humanity 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z In some irreducibly mysterious way, your philosophy and your technique have to turn the dots on the page into an interpretation that will say something to listeners. What Makes Superstar Conductor Gustavo Dudamel So Good? 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Instead of describing something deeply personal and irreducibly human, it now often refers to something generic and mass-produced. Why Suppress the ‘Experience’ of Half the World? 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z There are irreducible traces of that sensibility in the film’s eccentric eye, its sardonic tone and its haunting Ishai Adar score, built around a musical motif that sounds, appropriately enough, like a woman’s sigh. Review: Sandi Tan's documentary 'Shirkers' is a captivating journey into a lost cinematic past - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z On the surface, her increasingly desperate actions might seem reckless and deluded to the point of stupidity, but her motivations to the end remain irreducibly, gratifyingly complex. Review: Maggie Gyllenhaal brings a fierce, layered intensity to 'The Kindergarten Teacher' - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z The irreducible core of their dispute is the question of legal abortion — whether it represents progress or regress, a necessary human right or a grave evil. Opinion | An Age Divided by Sex 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z But there is something irreducibly powerful about the three men that Green puts before us and the quiet helplessness, verging on emotional and moral paralysis, that grips each of them in turn. Review: The tense, contemplative ‘Monsters and Men’ examines the aftermath of a police shooting - Los Angeles Times 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z I don’t want people to appraise him for his sake, but for our own: for our ability to tell irreducible stories, to see the world and its players in their full complexity. John McCain was complex. His legacy warrants critical discussion 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z At a time when conceptual art ruled, it took guts to claim that, in fact, color is concept, and perhaps the irreducible core of painting. Treasures from the Color Archive 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z The Declaration of Independence holds its truths to be “self-evident” — axiomatic, irreducible, not needing justification because they justify themselves. How Do You Explain the ‘Obvious?’ 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z “Scientists answer specific questions, but engineers deal with complex irreducible variables that you need to find patterns in,” Mr. Pollan said. Opinion | How and Why Silicon Valley Gets High 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z He constructed clear, irreducible sentences, and marshalled them into single-minded paragraphs. VS Naipaul obituary 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z The irreducible logic of constraint, and container, feed imagination. The next Great American Novel will be a video game 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z The slow grind of excuses sloths its way to the irreducible outcome, beautifully told. Opinion | An urgent lesson from the killing of six children 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Still, if all this digital artifice accomplishes anything, it effectively heightens the irreducible flesh-and-blood realism of the movie’s star. Dwayne Johnson scales the heights in the thrillingly dumb 'Skyscraper' 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z “If there’s an irreducible conflict of interests between two parties, there’s just not space for diplomatic maneuvers.” U.S. envoy meets N. Korean officials at DMZ; Secretary of State Pompeo to visit Pyongyang 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z When I expressed skepticism, he pointed to Trump’s fluctuating comments about the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un: “It shows that his positions aren’t irreducible ones, but made for appearances’ sake.” A New Revolution in Mexico 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z In truth, every person deserves a museum of his or her own life, because every life is so irreducibly strange, every mind so infinitely rich. Letter of Recommendation: Tiny Museums 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z A certain irreducible constitutional ambiguity may be sustainable when courts deal with words and images, but not if they get into distributing political power between our mutually antagonistic parties. Opinion | This solution to gerrymandering is worse than the problem 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z And new irreducible concepts are even more crucial to our understanding of really complicated phenomena -- for instance, migrating birds or human brains. Cosmic Thinker Worries about the Ends of Science and Humanity 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z It both showcases a new way to enrich literature, and implicitly demonstrates what is irreducibly special about reading. Is literature next in line for virtual-reality treatment? 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z That 1984 masterpiece features one of Stanton’s few leading roles besides this one, and it too discovered an indelible, irreducible authenticity in every crevice of its actor’s beautifully weathered visage. 'Lucky's' Harry Dean Stanton gives a beautiful final star turn 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z “The political, as unusually challenging as it may be to work with, is understood as an essential, irreducible aspect of our self-representations and an undeniably consequential factor in our difficulties in living,” Aibel writes. Opinion | President Trump actually is making us crazy 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z The simplicity of technique he achieves in “Marjorie Prime,” with its clean, elegant shot-reverse-shot setups, suits the irreducible complexity of the text, in which emotions and ideas are so entwined they’re practically interchangeable. Michael Almereyda's 'Marjorie Prime' is an elegant, haunting futuristic drama 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z Phenomena with different levels of complexity are understood in terms of different irreducible concepts – turbulence, survival, alertness, and so forth. Cosmic Thinker Worries about the Ends of Science and Humanity 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z From there, it is only a short jump to the endlessly malleable politics of Trump, in which the only irreducible fact is whether someone voted for him or didn’t. The Emptiness of Trump’s Promises of Tolerance 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z But the great Deneuve plays her with such endearing spirit, such an irreducible weave of dignity and desperation, that our exasperation is tempered with genuine affection. Two great Catherines find the drama in Martin Provost's 'The Midwife' 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Evolution, Hodak says, “is responsible for the richness of biology, and it’s also why it’s so hard to understand. It’s irreducible complexity.” A new breed of scientist, with brains of silicon 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z Land told me in an email: “Ccru was an entity ... irreducible to the agendas, or biographies, of its component sub-agencies ... Utter submission to The Entity was key.” Accelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z The point of the essay is that there’s an irreducible conflict between orthodox Christianity and political liberalism. Rod Dreher’s Monastic Vision 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z “I’m always interested in the irreducible contradictions that exist in certain subjects,” he said. When you make a movie about Scientology . . . Louis Theroux's church adventures 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z As often happens when I’m feeling under the weather, I had a sense of myself as an irreducibly biological thing, an assemblage of flesh and blood and gristle. ‘Your animal life is over. Machine life has begun.’ The road to immortality 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z I do not want to overstate the extent of Trump’s recent encounters with the irreducible facts. In Donald Trump’s fantasy world, hints of reality are dawning | Matthew d’Ancona 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z About Henry Green, however, there’s an irreducible, longstanding excitement among the few who have read him. Henry Green’s Party Going: an eccentric portrait of the idle rich 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z “It focuses on what we believe is the irreducible essence of a Marine — which is the fighting spirit,” said Lt. APNewsBreak: New ads show Marines as good citizens, warriors 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Instead of God, what directs the evolution of each Archie seems to be an irreducible kernel of identity. Paul Auster’s Novel of Chance 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z Carrie Fisher was never just a “her,” she was irreducibly an “us.” Remembering Carrie Fisher: actress, writer, icon 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z In embracing the irreducible simplicity of Endō’s language and slowing his own narrative rhythms accordingly, Scorsese has conjured a portrait of unbearable suffering that is also a work of insistent, altogether confounding grace. Martin Scorsese's 'Silence' is an anguished masterwork of spiritual inquiry 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z As he sees it, if race becomes an irreducible category in politics, rather than being incorporated into universal claims of justice, it’s a weapon that can be picked up and used by anyone. Hillary Clinton and the Populist Revolt 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Also, some congestion is irreducible, when the volume of traffic exceeds the capacity of the road. One Driver Can Prevent a Traffic Jam 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Anchored in a Judeo-Christian tradition, we believe in the irreducible value of every human being. Read Remarks from President Obama at Shimon Peres' Memorial 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z And our leadership, and our governments, and this United Nations should reflect this irreducible truth. Read Barack Obama's Final Speech to the United Nations 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z There’s also a lesson here for the Trumpians, in the irreducibly shallow role that public opinion played. Yahoo Can Still Be Broadband’s Future 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z The essential, irreducible character of Donald Trump in this election is that of snake oil salesman. And Then There Was Trump 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z “What destroys our authenticity is society,” Trilling writes, and what is authentic is irreducibly real — realer than the polite sheen of civility that lubricates social and political life. What Makes a Politician ‘Authentic’? 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z Catering to this philosophy, the restaurant would introduce an irreducibly plain dish: a baked potato served with a bottle of olive oil on the side. Four Seasons, Lunch Spot for Manhattan’s Prime Movers, Moves On 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z Directed with care by Lee Sunday Evans, this irreducible, transcendent “Macbeth” commands engagement as it plumbs the internal life of these characters, revealing their fragile emotions. Review: Two Shakespeare Plays, but With Fewer Deep Voices 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z More than ever, his attitude toward his characters seems an irreducible mixture of pity and contempt, and even his most juvenile attempts at outrage are complicated by eerie undercurrents of emotion. Todd Solondz's 'Wiener-Dog' puts humanity in a tragicomic cage 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z "There is still an irreducible level of uncertainty associated with the weather conditions," said colleague Prof Daniel Feltham. Melt ponds suggest no Arctic sea-ice record this year - BBC News 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z In another way, though, a draw underscores the unreasonableness—the irreducible pointlessness—of boxing. Boxing After Ali 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z Aravena likes to use the word “irreducible” to describe Elemental’s approach. Alejandro Aravena, the Architect Rebuilding a Country 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Instead, it will bring the prison’s population down to what administration officials tend to call an “irreducible minimum” by the time Obama leaves office in January. Two dozen Guantánamo detainees poised for release under Obama deals 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z “This provision should draw broad bipartisan support. It is an important step toward cleaning up the mess that exists at Guantánamo, and reducing the so-called irreducible minimum who remain in limbo.” Measure Would Let Guantánamo Detainees Enter Pleas in Civilian Court 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Many social phenomena, elections included, have an irreducible element of uncertainty attached to them, which makes predicting them a fraught enterprise. Donald Trump, Nate Silver, and the Value of Data Journalism 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z Are these mere pale imitations, faint reflections of an irreducibly “authentic” original? Szekspir by Any Other Name Is Still the Bard of Avon 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z For them, “irreducible uncertainty” remains irreducible, and our instinctual alarm, our attempts to outrun risk, are seen as dead ends, binding us to our animal nature and obstructing our grasp of reality. Why we're hardwired to hate uncertainty | Marc Lewis 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z Almost any type of investing requires us to accept irreducible uncertainty: Risk that, in the end, we just can’t get rid of. Make a Plan on How to Handle Risk, Then Stick to It 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z Over the years, administration aides would speak of them as a detail, an “irreducible minimum”, those left after men who posed a marginal threat were transferred out. 'No one but himself to blame': How Obama's Guantánamo plans fell through 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Jeane Kirkpatrick, then a professor at Georgetown, declared that a “realistic foreign policy that pursues ‘national interest’ without regard to morality, ultimately founders on its lack of realism about the irreducible human concern with morality.” “Ideological self-confidence and ruthless power politics”: Neo-conservatives, Charles Krauthammer and the real legacy of Ronald Reagan’s foreign policy 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z The Earth is a complex system, an irreducible complexity that defies simplification into computer models. The Most Important Number in Climate Change 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z So the investigators, Archy de Berker and colleagues – made sure that the level of uncertainty – what they call “irreducible uncertainty” or risk – would fluctuate yet remain high. Why we're hardwired to hate uncertainty | Marc Lewis 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z How does an adviser or planner deal with this irreducible uncertainty? Measuring How Financial Advisers Handle Uncertainty 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z First proposed by the Austrian Wolfgang Pauli in 1930, neutrinos are among the 17-odd irreducible building blocks of the world around us. Neutrinos: 'superheroes' of the particle world - BBC News 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z "Where the different elements are bound together by an irreducible set of values - democracy and freedom and equality under the law." Boris Johnson: Conservatives must protect low paid - BBC News 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z They remind us of the transcendent dimension of human existence and our irreducible freedom in the face of every claim to absolute power.” 'Never be ashamed': Pope forcefully defends immigrants in Philadelphia 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z Some climbing accidents involve random risk, things we might refer to as irreducible risk. A View From the Top on Preventing Financial Valleys 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Economists typically see such decisions as irreducible: there is no accounting for individuals’ values and preferences. The kindness of neighbours 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z Officials don’t know exactly how many prisoners would need to be brought here, but this “irreducible minimum,” as the White House calls the number, is believed to be in the dozens. Issue of where to move Guantanamo detainees threatens closure plan 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z There is Mr. McCain’s hard course of risking disfigurement and death for irreducible principles: honor, patriotism, personal integrity. How Donald Trump’s reprehensible statements could improve Washington 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z In a property forfeiture proceeding initiated by the government, the irreducible minimum of due process is a right to be heard and to present every available defense. Megaupload forfeiture ruling fallout: Legal experts worry about DOJ’s reach 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z The words and their setting combine to form a powerful and irreducible poetic image. The Unknown Notebooks of Jean-Michel Basquiat 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z “It’s perfect for novel challenges that are irreducibly complex, but it’s not necessary for the bulk of commerce.” Legal-Services Firm's $73 Million Deal Strips The Mystery From Derivatives Trading 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z But still wedded to the notion of European solidarity, euro advocates failed to grasp the crucial, irreducible obstacle to their economic plan that Mr. Feldstein highlighted: Politics are still local. Political Fractures in European Economic Unity 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z There’s a certain irreducible cost to making the decision about whether to offer a loan or not. Surprise, The New Regulator Says Regulations On Payday Loans Aren't Strong Enough 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z So, there is an irreducible uncertainty that remains and always will. How 'Warmest Ever' Headlines and Debates Can Obscure What Matters About Climate Change 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Because meaningfulness is built solely on an emotion, it is contentless and irreducible. Why David Brooks Misconceives The Meaningful Life 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z “If critics want to suggest that America is inherently and irreducibly racist, then why bother even working on it?” he told reporters on Friday. 2014 December 22 - First Draft. Political News, Now. - NYTimes.com 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z That needs a certain irreducible degree of logical complexity, which can only be made to be of practical value if implemented in very fast and reliable electronics. The Private Anguish of Alan Turing Few irreducible principles have been evident in her political career, but one of them is the right to the pursuit of happiness. The Astonishing Rise of Angela Merkel 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z He based his redefinition of what the median means on an assumption shared by evolutionary biologists, namely “that variation itself is nature’s only irreducible essence.” Living With Cancer: Gravy Days 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z They paid tribute to his fearless fervor for a good story, his old-school patriotism, his impatient energy, his irreducible magnetism and his sailor’s vocabulary. Bright Passages 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z But all of this is ignoring the fact that things like Brier scores or likelihood scores, while useful in the long run, contain an irreducible element of chance. What the Forecasts Got Right, and Wrong 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z An irreducible life term breaches the "prohibition of torture" article in the European Convention on Human Rights. Court chides Belgium in terror case 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Heading off in another direction, a new book by the physicist Max Tegmark suggests that a different ingredient — mathematics — needs to be admitted into science as one of nature’s irreducible parts. Beyond Energy, Matter, Time and Space 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z However, as long as democracy is irreducible to a formula, its composite values will always lose this battle: they are much harder to quantify. The rise of data and the death of politics 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z However, by ignoring the irreducible limits imposed by these same random fluctuations, Mora et al.1 express their emergence dates with too much certainty. Uncertainties in the timing of unprecedented climates : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z The first is that reality is irreducibly random, meaning that there are no hidden variables that “determine the results of individual measurements”1. Physics: Bell’s theorem still reverberates 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z She was irreducibly and completely herself — indomitable, admirable, and intermittently irrational. She Wasn't So Ungrateful After All 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z Further sensitivity is thwarted by an irreducible neutrino background, mainly from supernovae, the Sun and cosmic rays hitting Earth's atmosphere. Physics: Broaden the search for dark matter 2014-03-05T18:50:41.303Z But look closely at the particles and you find that they are irreducible representations of the Poincaré symmetry group—whatever that meant. Schrodinger’s Rats and The Search for Ultimate Reality [Excerpt] 2014-01-31T15:00:00Z The space-time discrepancy ultimately results in an irreducible level of noise in the position and momentum of particles, consistent with the uncertainty principle. Physicists Eye Quantum-Gravity Interface 2013-11-05T21:15:00.387Z Quantum information scientists embrace irreducible randomness as a resource for secure cryptography3. Physics: Bell’s theorem still reverberates 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z They’re doing something that engages them fully, vitally, irreducibly, and in their souls. Workaholics: Show Offs or Passionate Workers? 2013-06-04T12:00:00Z “We remain their irreducible enemies,” he said of the jihadists. Niger Hit by Two Suicide Attacks 2013-05-24T00:51:34Z If it makes it easier to picture those irreducible representations as little spheres, that’s your right. Schrodinger’s Rats and The Search for Ultimate Reality [Excerpt] 2014-01-31T15:00:00Z But even after we take these steps, some irreducible risks to our diplomats will remain. Transcript of Obama’s Speech on Drone Policy 2013-05-23T18:08:59Z A wide range of jobs that we now think of as skilled, secure, and irreducibly human may be the next casualties of technological change. Rise of the robots: what will the future of work look like? 2013-02-19T13:55:40Z The arguments of the dead had been laid out for him, the irreducible proofs of those who knew from the other side. Nicole Krauss: “Zusya on the Roof.” 2013-01-28T05:00:00Z In some uncanny, irreducibly specific way, New York is both a parable and a haunted example of what it means to be alive in time. City Room: Big City Book Club: Ric Burns on 'The Alienist' and Its New York 2013-01-15T22:25:04Z Conventional wisdom says that quantum mechanics is a theory of discreteness, describing a world of irreducible building blocks. Reality Check: You Are Not a Computer Simulation [Audio] 2012-11-28T12:15:00.400Z It’s about leaping into irreducible uncertainty and coping with it. Frankenstein Vs. Pinocchio and the Future of Innovation 2012-09-26T17:01:26Z Forget the qualitative, unquantifiable and irreducible elements, and you are left with so much junk. Humanities aren't a science. Stop treating them like one. 2012-08-10T16:15:02.797Z There is an irreducible minimum of people who are not going to be satisfied. Green Blog: Q. & A.: Campaigning in an Age of Deadlock 2012-04-17T11:00:55Z The hernia may be reducible, irreducible or strangulated. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z The mother meanwhile has risen, dressed the smaller children, performed the irreducible minimum of domestic work, and then left the house to gossip with a neighbour, or earn a few pence by charing. Boy Labour and Apprenticeship 2012-03-30T02:00:18.807Z Under private teachers he studied French, Italian, and Spanish,—a rather unusual thing for boys at that time,—and he reluctantly acquired what he regarded as the irreducible minimum of mathematics. William Hickling Prescott 2012-03-11T03:00:12.297Z I think you know I’ve tried to convey the full span of what’s known, and not known, about the greenhouse influence on climate — including the uncertainties and complexities, many of which are irreducible. Dot Earth Blog: The Heartland Files and the Climate Fight 2012-02-16T00:07:59Z But, after all, the facts are the irreducible minimum upon which to build all successful programs of reconstruction. Prowling about Panama 2012-02-11T03:04:04.040Z When an irreducible hernia becomes painful and tender, a local peritonitis has occurred, which resembles in many of its symptoms a case of strangulation, and must be regarded with suspicion and anxiety. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z I may say that we are coming to regard Mrs. Freere as a comparative reformation—as the irreducible minimum. Second String 2012-02-11T03:03:54.390Z There are for instance more kinds of people, I think, in the world—more irreducible kinds—than your categories meet. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z "I have got myself—you can guess by what denials and sacrifice and fights—into the shape where the fear of senility, of loss or depreciation of my powers, is reduced to the irreducible minimum." Running Sands 2012-02-05T03:00:08.983Z So inherent in his very structure, so inwrought in his conscious character, so deeply based, so cardinal, and so enduring and irreducible is this fourfoldness in Lincoln's inward life. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z The treatment of irreducible hernia may be palliative; a “bag truss” may be worn in the hope of preventing the hernia getting larger; the bowels must be kept open, and all irregularities of diet avoided. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z Often touted by Intelligent Designers as ‘irreducibly complex’, eyes are highly intricate machines that require a number of parts working together to function. Evolution: The Rise of Complexity 2012-01-16T21:15:00.253Z Here was an accomplishment, a possession, of unique importance and excellence, for tobacco belonged to the irreducible number of necessities. San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z If it be well considered, it will be seen that this irreducible antithesis that fills us with despair is the very condition of our spiritual development. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z As between these two realities, each so imperial and so irreducible, which holds primacy? Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z We may also regard these forms as the irreducible boundary between object and subject. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z This being so, it is clear that when the irreducible representations of a group of finite order are known, all representations may be built up. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z The chain of causes and effects, he points out, is not broken by the differences of the original, irreducible forces. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z Outside these two systems, equally violent and absolute, the two orders of knowledge are irreducible, because in us the consciousness of the ego and the consciousness of the world are at present in conflict. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z In fixing there the ground of every plea, he had indomitable assurance of faith that he was defining and declaring for every man an irreducible and ineffaceable moral law. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z But hereupon the question arises, "Are these two types of relations what Russell holds them to be, namely, ultimate and irreducible logical facts, unanalyzable categories—mere data for the thinker?" International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z If r is the number of sets of conjugate operations in G, there is, for each representation of G as an irreducible group, a set of r characteristics: X1, X2, ... Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z On the contrary, they may be viewed as permanent, 'irreducible traits,' which are ultimate in the sense of being always present in reality. John Dewey's logical theory 2011-11-28T03:00:21.547Z To any sort of arrangement with Europe he was irreducibly opposed: "We have a perfect horror at everything connecting ourselves with the politics of Europe." Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism 2011-11-23T03:00:55.563Z It is a solid moral trait, substantial and irreducible. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z Such a view, of course, implies that there are a plurality of ultimately independent forms of order irreducible to a single type. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z When this cannot be done the group is called “irreducible.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z For evolution appears to be just one of the irreducible traits. John Dewey's logical theory 2011-11-28T03:00:21.547Z Thus friction is brought down almost to the irreducible minimum. Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science 2011-11-19T03:00:24.517Z Those propositions were the irreducible rudiments of his faith, the permanent constituents of his hope. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z It is really the basis of several other axioms, and if we were seeking the "irreducible minimum," it would replace them. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z The fundamental theorem in connexion with the representations, as an irreducible group of linear substitutions, of a group of finite order N is the following. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z The irreducible traits which Dewey finds are, in the physical sciences, plurality, interaction, and change. John Dewey's logical theory 2011-11-28T03:00:21.547Z A German was something disagreeable and disconcerting, an irreducible mass, which they determined to keep out of their conception of things. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z The scientific method is defined by the search for the irreducible truth. Why scientists are smarter than politicians 2011-09-28T10:40:00Z Indian blood remained numerically predominant, and the conqueror further weakened his tenure by bringing in black blood—the most irreducible of ethnic factors. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z A representation of a group of finite order as an irreducible group Group characteristics. of linear substitutions may be presented in an infinite number of equivalent forms. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z To posit nature by thought is to posit something irreducible to thought and therefore unthinkable. The Reform of Education 2011-07-18T02:00:21.207Z More than 150 years after Darwin published his groundbreaking theory, these findings put the nail in the coffin of irreducible complexity and beautifully support Darwin’s idea. Evolution of the Eye (preview) 2011-06-27T11:15:00.973Z And second, these whites viewed themselves as custodians of something sacred and irreducibly black. On Religion: A Black Cultural Tradition and Its Unlikely Keepers 2011-06-18T00:46:08Z This “irreducible minimum” runs about as follows: First and foremost, the wretched Versailles business will have to be thoroughly revised. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z Xr, one corresponding to each conjugate set; so that for the r irreducible representations just r such sets of characteristics arise. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z That irreducible tension led Huffington to pursue a sale and push her partners to go along. The Honeymooners 2011-06-08T22:00:00Z Or was misery there too, as deep and irreducible as his own? Caribbee 2011-06-05T02:00:16.273Z As to whether the electrons themselves, in their turn, are irreducible units, there may be room for doubt. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z It is far easier to distinguish between accidents and substance than to give an exhaustive list of the ultimate and irreducible classes of the former. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z But this is about irreducible irrationality, if you like. At U.S. Nuclear Sites, Preparing for the Unlikely 2011-03-28T16:27:46Z The deliberations continued, but finally the Porte refused to accept what the plenipotentiaries considered an irreducible minimum, and the conference broke up without obtaining any practical result. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z So far as any practical calculation is concerned, we may regard this as an irreducible minimum. The Negro and the elective franchise. A Series Of Papers And A Sermon (The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 11.) 2011-03-03T03:00:50.323Z Not only are biological phenomena irreducible to terms of mechanics, but it is mechanics that will have to be re-interpreted in terms of biology. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z It represents the irreducible minimum below which the local need for currency can never fall. Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted 2011-02-01T03:00:14.553Z Again you must recur to some earlier theorem; and so on, until all your "whys" are answered with all possible clearness in irreducible axioms or postulates. The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn 2011-01-30T03:00:15.907Z But it would have confined it to its essential and irreducible minimum. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z At all times, she said, the emphasis is on the dignity of the deceased, and respect for the irreducible reality of death. Reviving a Ritual of Tending to the Dead 2010-12-13T05:40:00Z Since then, the regulator has focused on maintaining an "irreducible core" of function while delivering an estimated 25-40% cuts in costs. Ofcom needs sharper teeth 2010-10-04T06:00:00Z They also reveal one of the irreducible, grim absurdities of this war, which is the disjunction between its lofty strategic and ideological imperatives and the dusty, frustrating reality on the ground. | 'Restrepo': In Afghanistan, Loving Life, Making War in 2010-06-24T18:44:00Z That is another of the reasons why soccer is so endlessly appealing: like life, it is unpredictable, irreducible to scientific certitude. The Global Game: How Soccer Took Over the World 2010-06-04T17:00:00Z “Genomics and the irreducible nature of eukaryotic cells.” Life in the Third Realm 2010-05-19T01:00:00Z There is a "inherent irreducible uncertainty" in economic behavior that cannot be explained or modeled, said Turner, who has derided most financial innovation as "socially useless." A Call for Radically Rethinking Economic Theory 2010-04-13T16:47:00Z The things he saw, and the jobs he performed, are part of an irreducible record that he believes is his duty to recount. Memory Fading, a Holocaust Survivor Bears Witness 2010-04-10T01:40:00Z In effect, the technology industry is rethinking some of its very basic notions, especially the supposedly irreducible difference between hardware and software. Make Mine Virtual, Please 2010-03-04T23:00:00Z The individual substances, of which the universe is composed, fall into three great irreducible kinds: nature, God, man. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" The irreducible minimum number of villages therefore totals 20. The Aboriginal Population of the North Coast of California Michael was not sorry to let his own reading beyond the irreducible minimum slide during this gay third year. Sinister Street, vol. 2 No scientist, not even the mathematician, in the specific investigations of his field, seeks for ultimate and irreducible data at large. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude H. Rutgers closed his watch with a sharp and angry snap and then determinedly named a sum exactly two-thirds of what the band-master had fixed as the irreducible minimum. H. R. There remains too the consequence that there are different substances, separate from but related to one another; and these substances of three irreducible kinds, natural, supernatural, human. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" Moreover, he was a typical product of an age which scoffs at superstition and is impatient of all things irreducible to the terms of algebraic formulas. The King of Arcadia “The categories,” he says, “are the Renouvier, Cousin, Hamilton, Mill. primary and irreducible laws of knowledge, the fundamental relations which determine its form and regulate its movements.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" Each may, and most do, constitute distinct and independent valuations of their objects, to which they respond, and each, with these objects, remains an irreducible system. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude La Touche thanked her with the perfervid sincerity of a man whose irreducible minimum is forty-eight dollars a dozen. H. R. There seems to be an irreducible minimum of jingoism, just as whatever your precautions, you cannot quite do away with rats or noxious germs. American World Policies In the middle of all this bustle of reform planned, achieved, frustrated, and replanned, and the never-ending underground warfare that surges in a Native State, move the English officers—the irreducible minimum of exiles. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel I found, on my side, a rare intellectual joy, the oddest secret exultation, in feeling her begin instantly to play the part I had attributed to her in the irreducible drama. The Sacred Fount They have looked forward rather than backward, have tacitly acknowledged the reality of change, the irreducible pluralism of nature, and the genuineness of the activities, oppugnant or harmonizing, between the items of the Cosmic. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude As early marriages and large families are the rule, this process of continual division and subdivision has brought things down to the irreducible minimum in many places. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" Unfortunately, his artistic gift, one inclines to suppose, is precisely that irreducible minimum without which an artist cannot exist. Pot-Boilers He gave the sentence the quality of an ultimatum, an irreducible minimum. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman It is even possible that all the substances we call earths may be only metallic oxyds, irreducible by any hitherto known process. Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries The peace of Br�msebro was the first of the long series of treaties, extending down to our own days, which mark the progressive shrinkage of Danish territory into an irreducible minimum. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" I am not certain, yet, that “my lady” of to-day is the sole repository of every virtue; neither am I dogmatic about “necessary vice,” the “irreducible minimum,” and such-like large viewpoints. An Ocean Tramp His second coming is an article of their faith; it is plainly taught in the New Testament, and was recently propounded by Mr. Spurgeon as part of the irreducible minimum of the Christian faith. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) Rivalry between the several existing companies had already produced an irreducible minimum price on watches of conventional design. The Auburndale Watch Company First American Attempt Toward the Dollar Watch It is only the elements of them which we know to be certainly real; all that we can assert is the separate existence of the irreducible elements, form, material, colour, number. Introduction to the Study of History The architecture of the Chinese is of a peculiar style, totally unlike any other, irreducible to our rules, but perfectly consistent with its own. Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton The combination of have with an intransitive verb is irreducible to the idea of possession: indeed, it is illogical. A Handbook of the English Language Patients with very large and irreducible hernias, and those who are very fat and in advanced life, are unfavorable subjects for operation. The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) I say that all thinking starts with an assumption of some kind, and exact thought requires that that assumption shall be the simplest possible, the irreducible minimum beneath which we cannot get. The New Theology But it is the irreducible minimum of religion in the modern West, the justification of our life, the faith of our works. Appearances Being Notes of Travel The variety of local signs, without becoming organized into forms, remains prominent and irreducible. The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory The moral judgment may lead us to postulate as irreducible the contingencies of the world. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy In irreducible ruptures there is likely to be constipation and colic produced, and strangulation is more liable to occur. The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) We know that this form of association is not primary and irreducible. Essay on the Creative Imagination However legitimate and necessary such an attitude may be as an expression of our ignorance, we ought not to use the phrase "ultimate and irreducible," as if no one could ever explain it. Life and Matter A Criticism of Professor Haeckel's 'Riddle of the Universe' It is for logicians to discover whether they are so many irreducible relations, or whether they can be resolved into relations still more general. Creative Evolution That there are such real conflicts, irreducible to any intelligence, and giving rise to an excess of possibility over actuality, is an hypothesis, but a credible one. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy A truss having a hollow pad may prove of service in small irreducible ruptures, but no truss is of much value in large hernias of this kind. The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) Its appearance is irreducible to any law; it results from the often fortuitous convergence of various factors previously studied. Essay on the Creative Imagination She knew nothing whatever of these, yet could herself be much wounded or hurt—which latter word she sounded in the wondrous old New York manner so irreducible to notation. A Small Boy and Others We are then reduced to taking the general frames of the understanding for something absolute, irreducible and inexplicable. Creative Evolution It has happened to each king of Prussia since that time to perform some colossal task, grounded in an irreducible antinomy. The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 In case the rupture cannot be returned, it is called irreducible and is a more serious form. The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) There is an irreducible antithesis between affective imagination, the characteristic of which is interiority, and visual imagination, basically objective. Essay on the Creative Imagination But the irreducible residue of the facts is, in my opinion, still enormous as compared with the little that could perhaps be eliminated by these means from the discussion. Lola or, The Thought and Speech of Animals This form is therefore neither irreducible nor inexplicable. Creative Evolution But Townley did not know, and it was impossible for him to know, that many things are feasible in a laboratory which are irreducible to commercial terms. The Rapids The irreducible minimum of civil government—as even the administrative nihilists of the school of Herbert Spencer admit—involves three things, viz., defence of life, protection of property, and enforcement of contract. Freedom In Service Six Essays on Matters Concerning Britain's Safety and Good Government What wonder, then, if he should sometimes make mistakes, and that some inconsistencies remain at last irreducible? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 It is quite consistent with its purpose that the parts of reality should be found to compose a group, or an indefinite multitude of irreducibly different entities. The Approach to Philosophy We omit it, precisely because it does not occur to us to distinguish two kinds of order that are irreducible to one another. Creative Evolution The less will not contain the greater, and my irreducible minimum expenditure is more than my income. Mufti In the same way, the moral consciousness is an ultimate fact, and irreducible. The Atonement and the Modern Mind If the method undertaken draws the irreducible cases into a narrower and a narrower compass, that sufficiently justifies the theory of the method against all gainsayers. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 For all that, we trust that the irreducible minimum has now been reached. Punch, or the London Charivari, May 6, 1914 An irreducible hernia is one that can not be returned into the abdomen, and yet does not cause any pain or uneasiness. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse They stand for the irreducible principles of conduct, to omit any one of which is to present a maimed or only partial character. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics We always marched up in kilts and marched out in kilts, but during our stay there our clothes were the irreducible minimum, shorts and shirts. With a Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia 1916—1917 The complex vision is the vision of an irreducible living entity which pours itself as a whole into every one of its various energizings. The Complex Vision He formulates it in the following terms: "body and mind, consciousness and the molecular cerebral movement of the brain, the psychical fact and the physical fact, although simultaneous, are heterogeneous, unconnected, irreducible, and obstinately two." The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps Abdominal hernias, or ruptures, are divided into reducible, irreducible, and strangulated, according to condition; and into inguinal, scrotal, ventral, umbilical, and diaphragmatic, according to their situation. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse The commune was an irreducible local unit whose history was unbroken from the era of Roman dominion in Gaul. The Governments of Europe Criticism is to the artist the intrusion, in a form irreducible to art, of the body of the world. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets After all, the most obstinate and irreducible of all pictorial representations is the obvious one of the material universe with our physical body as the centre of it. The Complex Vision Ordinarily these forms of speech are criticised because they appear to have the defect of establishing a confusion between two irreducible elements, the physical and the mental. The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps The few principles I have mentioned are perhaps the most important of those they believe to be the irreducible minimum needed to insure this result. Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement It was possible to keep the original plan of the old story in its simplest irreducible form, and still give it the force and magnificence of a lofty and eloquent style. Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature Her miracles may not have been of the irreducible protoplastic order, but they had been miracles to the practical Californian mind, notwithstanding, and worthy of the attention of consistory and Pope. The Spinner's Book of Fiction The oriental conception of "Nirvana" is no more than a soothing opiate administered to a soul that has grown weary of its complex vision and weary of its irreducible personality. The Complex Vision A strange, glistening thing streamlined to the nth degree, every spare corner rounded till the resistance was at the irreducible minimum. Invaders from the Infinite This temporarily irreducible condition can often be cured and always prevented from growing worse if the proper truss is fitted and worn. Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured But honest human thought will seek above all to determine what are the veritable irreducible mysteries. The Buried Temple In spite of warnings, we found that our irreducible minimum of luggage filled five wardrobe-trunks. Tenting To-night A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the Cascade Mountains The activity of the complex vision, then, makes us aware that we have within us an integral irreducible self, the living personal substratum of our self-consciousness, the "I" of our primordial "I am I." The Complex Vision A subject, one and whole and irreducible—a novel cannot begin to take shape till it has this for its support. The Craft of Fiction Unless you have already let your rupture become permanently irreducible the probabilities are that the Cluthe Truss can entirely free you from the clutches of rupture, just as it has thousands of others. Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured On the contrary, it was the unconsciousness of the mass, compelled to act in self-defence against thoughts too intrinsically, individually human to satisfy the irreducible exigencies of life on this earth. The Buried Temple They were actually balanced and steered by vanes in the blasts of their jets, and they combined the absolute maximum of sheer thrust with the irreducible minimum of flyability. Space Tug They are, I own, frequently wild and irreducible to the more modern rules; but on that very eccentricity, perhaps, depends a great part of their effect. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham Charity and mortal sin are two things irreducibly opposed, uncompromisingly antagonistic, eternally inimical. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals It was no longer possible to ship the output to a profitable market, in the face of the growing self-sufficiency of the colonial planets and the irreducibly high cost of space-freighting. Graveyard of Dreams But, this reproach once made—and it is the cardinal reproach against irreducible injustice—they have no further cause of complaint. The Buried Temple But beyond all such explanations, after we have allowed for them in every possible way, there remains a conviction that behind these fascinating stories there is a certain irreducible remainder of actual fact. Among Famous Books They were attacked by the born enemy, the irreducible and absolute enemy, of whom they knew enough to understand that they had nothing to expect from him but total and unremitting disaster. The Wrack of the Storm Or are they irreducible events, and units of mechanism by themselves? Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion The lump may be tense, hard and irreducible. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada In a curious book on "Chance and Destiny," Dr. Foissac gives various strange examples of the persistent, inexplicable, fundamental, pre-ordained, irreducible iniquity in which many existences are steeped. The Buried Temple The whole span, the irreducible maximum, not to be stretched by any contrivance beyond about thirty hours. A Day's Tour A Journey through France and Belgium by Calais, Tournay, Orchies, Douai, Arras, Béthune, Lille, Comines, Ypres, Hazebrouck, Berg Other Members were friendly to the project, and Mr. Dennis Herbert, in the avowed interest of churchwardens, urged the Government to seize the opportunity to abolish the threepeeny-bit, the irreducible minimum of "respectable" almsgiving. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-25 Fixed luxation may be of such character as to be practically irreducible because of extensive damage done to ligaments or cartilage. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 A slightly slower speed of the rod would give an irreducible confusion of bands, since the order in which they overlap becomes very complicated. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. Now the Silver Knight had sworn—that the Standard so long borne By the Aureate One, in scorn irreducible Should not solitary wave. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 3, 1892 A multitude of objects, images, comparisons, which were believed to be irreducible to words, entered into the language and have stayed there. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century Russia did not believe in an "irreducible minimum" where the rights of her Jews were concerned. The Haskalah Movement in Russia The demand for exertion is the irreducible minimum. Humanly Speaking This land is offered for sale or lease by the state, through the office of the state land commissioner, and the proceeds constitute a permanent and irreducible fund to be invested for educational purposes. A Review of the Resources and Industries of the State of Washington, 1909 Magnitudes to which we attribute like dimensions may be qualitatively irreducible one to the other. The New Physics and Its Evolution His irreducible minimum is two hours spent in meditation and wordless communication with God at the beginning of each day. The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day My quest throughout this experience seemed to be pretty steadily a search for those irreducible fundamentals which I could use in getting a technically decent opinion on that riot. An American Idyll The Life of Carleton H. Parker In modern psychology the word means simply a capacity for an ultimate, irreducible, or unanalysable mode of thinking of, or being conscious of, objects. The Black Man's Place in South Africa It is labour lost, for that identity is axiomatic, absolute, irreducible. Aspects of Literature For it amounted to the abandonment of one of their three vital irreducible claims which they were not empowered to renounce. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference But it is obvious that this irreducible minimum is a good deal less than what a fair-minded historian will admit. Patriarchal Palestine The instrument, drawn with this fear uppermost, was designed to limit the National Government to "the irreducible minimum of functions absolutely needed for the national welfare." Our Changing Constitution The irreducible and final factor in social evolution and in social science is personality; for personality is the determinative factor of a human being. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic This was the Far West itself; silent, inscrutable, unchanged, irreducible. The Covered Wagon The thing that has gone by the board is the old idea of the atoms as the indivisible and irreducible minima of the material universe. Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation A prosperous clergyman might hold half-a-dozen separate preferments, and, as long as he paid curates to perform the irreducible minimum of public duty, he need never show his face inside his deserted parishes. Sydney Smith Karma means movement; it is the third thing which must be held to be as irreducible a reality as dravya or gu@na. A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 Colombe is no incarnated idea but a complete human being, irreducible to a formula, whom we know the better because there is always in her more of exquisite womanhood to be discovered. Robert Browning In religions this is the only thing which is irreducible; but this irreducible thing suffices. The Man Who Laughs The borderland of the unknown or the irreducible is its realm. Heart of Man The number of motor-cars at the disposal of the Air Ministry now stands at the apparently irreducible minimum of forty-two. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 28, 1919 So love must appear indivisible, irreducible, superior to all analysis, if it is to retain those aspects of infinitude, of the supernatural and the miraculous, which constitute its beauty. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters Chemists have been able to make out sixty-five or sixty-six irreducible elements; but while chemistry is young, the elements are everlasting. The World's Great Sermons, Volume 10 Drummond to Jowett, and General Index Still, he carried the irreducible minimum of flesh on his bones, and his hollow cheeks and shrunken jaws threw his massive forehead into striking prominence. Collections and Recollections In fact, an irreducible inconsistency marred their view of the world. Pantheism, Its Story and Significance Religions Ancient and Modern The hard bodies proved to be on one side an irreducible omental hernia, probably congenital, and on the other a hardened mass having no glandular structure. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine But the adverse chances had been weeded out and weeded out to the irreducible minimum of risk. Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman Under the action of various events they enter into mutual conflict, and the irreducible differences which divide them are visibly manifested, involving considerable individual and social upheavals. The Psychology of Revolution That, with about fifty-six exceptions, irreducible as yet, all matter is in a condition of perpetual metamorphosis. System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery The intimation had the next thing, in a flash, taken on a name—a name on which our friend seized as he asked himself if he weren't perhaps really dealing with an irreducible young Pagan. The Ambassadors On this particular night the irreducible nine hours were severely mutilated by the sudden and by no means noiseless incursion of a pyjama-clad figure into Waldo’s room at an hour midway between midnight and dawn. Beasts and Super-Beasts They are, I own, frequently wild, and irreducible to the more modern rules; but on that very eccentricity, perhaps, depends a great part of their effect. The Letters of Robert Burns The events of the Revolution did not ensue from irreducible necessities. The Psychology of Revolution I wrote such stuff about Chaucer, and got into such digressions, quite irreducible into 1-1/5 column of a paper, that I was perfectly ashamed to show it you. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 Schopenhauer rightly saw that history was irreducible to concepts, that it is the contemplation of the individual, and therefore not a science. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Our modern analytical chemistry remains for the present at a standstill, in presence of some seventy irreducible elements, or so-called primary substances. Monism as Connecting Religion and Science A Man of Science The Apostolic confession here is the 'irreducible minimum' of the Christian creed. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke Whatever one may think of the Revolution, an irreducible difference will always exist between historians of the school of Taine and those of the school of M. Aulard. The Psychology of Revolution The question comes to us all; and in these days of unsettlement it is well to have some clear understanding of what is the 'irreducible minimum' of Christian teaching. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV Sociality, then, far from being an original, simple, irreducible conception, is very complex and complicated. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic The photograph represented a young man in the irreducible minimum of clothing who crouched painfully, as though stricken with one of the acuter forms of gastritis. The Adventures of Sally Each of our small bedrooms proved to contain only the irreducible minimum-a bed, handmade of rope. Autobiography of a Yogi The hatred of heretics having been always, as we have seen, in respect of the Reformation, an irreducible characteristic of great beliefs, we can readily comprehend the intolerance of the Jacobin religion. The Psychology of Revolution The electromagnetic fields appear as ultimate, irreducible realities, and at first it seems superfluous to postulate a homogeneous, isotropic ether-medium, and to envisage electromagnetic fields as states of this medium. Sidelights on Relativity Linguistic also discovered the irreducible individuality of the aesthetic fact, when it affirmed that the word is what is really spoken, and that two truly identical words do not exist. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic There is defined their irreducible demand: never again, after peace returns, will the Turk be allowed to control the destinies of races not his own. Crescent and Iron Cross I wrote such stuff about Chaucer, and got into such digressions, quite irreducible into 1 1/5 column of a paper, that I was perfectly ashamed to show it you. The Best Letters of Charles Lamb But again the facts shoot up, hard and irreducible, through the sea of comment. Towards the Goal We are left with a number of distinct and apparently irreducible impulses and tendencies on our hands. A Handbook of Ethical Theory There exists an empirical Aesthetic, which although it admits the existence of facts, called aesthetic or artistic, yet holds that they are irreducible to a single principle, to a rigorous philosophical concept. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic The result was a contradiction which was absolutely irreducible within the limits of formal democracy. From October to Brest-Litovsk This is the irreducible minimum of a word, but is seldom all. The Principles of Aesthetics It was irreducible; but this was a unique experience. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism Take shaky bitter old Miss Catherine for your unit, multiply her to the nth, and there you see the irreducible power we have to fight against. Philistia These consisted largely of ammunition, everything else being cut down to an irreducible minimum. She and Allan By day we decided what to take and what to leave behind, and we cut down what to take with us to the irreducible, dangerous minimum. The Ivory Trail This is one of the simple irreducible elements of this world's life after millions of years of divine opportunity and twenty centuries of Christ. Pragmatism Interest on the public debt and certain other costs are irreducible. State of the Union Address You know, to men like your father convictions are irreducible elements—they can't be split up, and differently combined. Tales of Men and Ghosts What anthem did Bloom chant partially in anticipation of that multiple, ethnically irreducible consummation? Ulysses Therefore there is an irreducible minimum of wages; it is such an amount of vital capital as suffices to replace the inevitable consumption of the person hired. Evolution and Ethics Every woman tells ninety per cent. of the truth to her dressmaker; the other ten per cent. is the irreducible minimum of deception beyond which no self-respecting client trespasses. Reginald To every sincere mind and to one capable of entertaining both, each is irreducible to the other. The Modern Regime, Volume 2 The view here expressed, that relation to an object is an ultimate irreducible characteristic of mental phenomena, is one which I shall be concerned to combat. The Analysis of Mind Intellectuals questioned what appeared to be irreducible religious contradictions between Catholic and Orthodox Christians, or between Christians and Moslems. The Civilization of Illiteracy An erroneous notion of the development of language has become widely spread through the adoption of the metaphorical term "roots" for the irreducible elements of human speech. Darwin and Modern Science Is there a something irreducible in the desire? The Foundations of Personality At first even the best of us will carry too much plunder, but ten years of philosophy and rainstorms, trails and trials, will bring us to an irreducible minimum. The Land of Footprints I do not wish to say dogmatically that the difference is irreducible; I think it highly probable that it is not. The Analysis of Mind Even in this documentary or historic function, books capture less than what other media, better adapted to sign processes irreducible to literacy, could. The Civilization of Illiteracy The unknown is then, on principle, and in virtue of this theory, referred to the already known; and it thereby becomes impossible ever to grasp any true novelty or any irreducible originality. A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson The task system set an irreducible minimum for the day's work; the employer exacted the task and assumed that no better way of handling men could be devised. Increasing Human Efficiency in Business, a contribution to the psychology of business The one-third of the French law seemed to be the irreducible minimum. Notes on Life and Letters Is there ultimately no difference, or do images remain as irreducibly and exclusively psychological? The Analysis of Mind The Gulf War, on its various fronts, was not a conflict of irreducible or irreconcilable religions, morals, or cultures. The Civilization of Illiteracy Our duration, which is continually accumulating itself, and always introducing some irreducible new factor, prevents any kind of state, even if superficially identical, from repeating itself in depth. A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson For from what source could an irreducible relativity be produced in it? A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson The antinomies are resolved genetically, whilst in the plane of language they remain irreducible. A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson Thus will seems to add no new irreducible ingredient to the analysis of the mind. The Analysis of Mind |
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