| 单词 | reducible |
| 例句 | And this is not reducible to just you—the women around you must be responsible for their bodies in a way that you never will know. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z But there was still that memory moving round the edges of his consciousness, something strongly felt but not reducible to definite shape, like an object seen out of the comer of one’s eye. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z But meaning, minding and consciousness are higher-order processes, requiring but not reducible to the billions of mindless neurons firing away inside your brain. Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking by Daniel C Dennett – review 2013-05-15T06:00:03Z Literature, she says, has the potential to give us texts in which “the experiences of the old unfold and collapse back, like concertinas, into narratives that are rarely reducible to age itself.” What Old Age Is Really Like 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z But the fundamental appeal of his books is, for me, reducible to the reason he began to cook at all. Dark Side of the Spoon: The Moods and Recipes of Nigel Slater 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z A person's work is not reducible to his or her neuroses, and a person's neuroses are not the determinant of a person's work. Listening to Van Morrison by Greil Marcus 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z If the world was to be reducible to physical causation, then all mental experiences—intention, agency, purpose, meaning—must be secondary qualities, inexplicable within the framework of materialism. Do We Have Minds of Our Own? 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z I would not say all art is ultimately reducible to the person and the character or subjectivity of the author. Should you feel guilty owning Rolf's art? 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z As he writes in his first chapter, in words for which he will disclaim responsibility: "The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever." The American dream 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z Men’s fashion — the nontailored sort — has become reducible in recent years, almost to the point of parody. Critical Shopper: Critical Shopper - Hickoree?s Floor Two in Williamsburg 2011-11-08T19:51:29Z “Because we are not reducible to our bodies. Our inner freedom is inviolable. And this freedom that we cherish is not without risks and responsibilities.” Catherine Deneuve and Others Denounce the #MeToo Movement 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z But what’s notable about the movie is that it’s hardly reducible to its drama—in fact, its drama is the least of its merits. A Movie that Captures France’s Dystopian Employment Situation 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Anyone who believes that Mother Courage is reducible to its political points is deluding themselves. Tony Kushner: 'At first I was horrified' 2011-08-15T20:31:01Z It is not something that is reducible to a slogan that is fit for the back of a car. Rita Dove: “The first thing that goes when a government becomes a tyranny are words” 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z The simpler the lessons — that is, the more reducible to adage or slogan — the more usable they are. Annette Gordon-Reed’s Surprising Recollections of Texas 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z That life, in other words, is not a thing reducible to something as epigrammatic as the essay’s first sentence. From literary heavyweight to lifestyle brand: exploring the cult of Joan Didion 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z She knows her way around a syllogism, but she also knows that persuasion is not reducible to reason—that the best arguments, on their own, do not always win. The Stylish Socialist Who Is Trying to Save YouTube from Alt-Right Domination 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Replicas of the pyramids sit on a table, a final comment on memory – how fragile it is, how reducible to cheap souvenirs. Artist Andy Holden makes a marvellous mountain out of a misdemeanour | Jonathan Jones 2010-03-19T16:11:00Z Nowadays Zen has become western shorthand for peace and calm, all too reducible as a lifestyle hack. The Lessons of Nothingness From Maverick Zen Monks 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z As Indigenous people have always known, consciousness is not reducible to mathematical calculations, it's embodied, interconnected and inseparable from the matter that is life. Dangerous visions: How the quest for utopia could lead to catastrophe 2023-07-29T04:00:00Z “When we're talking to each other, we kind of create a single überbrain that isn't reducible to the sum of its parts,” Wheatley says. Brain Waves Synchronize when People Interact 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z “The Consultant” is almost entirely reducible to this foursome. Review | ‘The Consultant’: A deliciously creepy star turn for Christoph Waltz 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z In his view, though, Black life is not reducible to racism. Opinion | Tim Scott is a talented candidate finding his theme 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z The presence of the monarchy in his life is reducible to a few objects: pocket money bearing the queen’s profile and the flag. A London diaspora district remembers a queen — ambivalently 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z In addition, what about concepts that are not easily reducible to a simple meaning or idea? Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z “Nowadays Zen has become Western shorthand for peace and calm, all too reducible as a lifestyle hack,” he writes. Your Friday Briefing: After the Quake 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z These ideas in opposition create cognitive dissonance, and this makes people uncomfortable in a way not reducible to prejudice alone. Contemplating Beauty in a Disabled Body 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z Philip Anderson, a Nobel laureate, contends in his 1972 essay “More Is Different” that as phenomena become more complicated, they require new modes of explanation; not even chemistry is reducible to physics, let alone psychology. Does Quantum Mechanics Rule Out Free Will? 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Many of our country’s problems are reducible, in one way or another, to the fact that we have lost the imperative to transform the physical world. Opinion | We Need to Build Our Way Out of This Mess 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z Ross also thought Mill was wrong to assume that rightness is reducible to simply the production of good, just as Kant was wrong to assume that moral rules are absolute and never admit any exceptions. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z But they are united in their commitment to communicating through stage metaphors that are not reducible to single interpretations. The early Harold Pinter play that speaks volumes about our current moment 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z He thinks mystical experiences are reducible to physiological processes. Science Should Not Try to Absorb Religion and Other Ways of Knowing 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z I’d done enough reporting and talked to enough Native American scholars by that point to know one thing: Native identity is not reducible to genetics. The Native Scholar Who Wasn’t 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z We are not reducible to the materials we write, even when it is memoir. I wrote a memoir about abuse. That doesn't mean you're entitled to every detail 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z Pluralism holds that people have two or more fundamental values because these values are not reducible to each other. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Because it’s complicated, not reducible to a slogan. ‘General Durkan,’ or ‘Mayor Deliberate Indifference’? The plot thickens in Seattle’s protest story 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z There is an element of a person's humanity that is never fully reducible to one's gangster and thuggish activity. Cornel West on Trump, the virus and the future: "Imagine a world that is worth fighting for" 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z “It revives all the most horrific concepts from the racism of a century ago, this pseudoscientific idea people are reducible to this essential quality of race,” he said. Rufo claims small win as Trump ends ‘White privilege’ indoctrination at federal agencies 2020-09-06T04:00:00Z While understandable, this too can be problematic in the assumptions it makes: Our identities aren’t always seamlessly pure or reducible. The Photographer Capturing Unvarnished Truths 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z The relationship between liberal support for public health efforts to slow the virus and liberal support for the protests simply isn't reducible to "hypocrisy." Are protesters and public health officials being pandemic hypocrites? That's not how it works 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z So, the question of free will boils down to one of metaphysics: are our felt volitional states reducible to something outside and independent of consciousness? Yes, Free Will Exists 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Our inner mental life is hidden from external observation and does not seem reducible to mathematical description. The Search for Truth in Physics 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z It does not follow that the phenomenon of life will actually be entirely reducible in that way. The Urgency of Agency 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z List: The free-will denial we are now seeing appears to be a by-product of the growing popularity of a reductionistic worldview in which everything is thought to be reducible to physical processes. Free Will Is Real 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z But the idea that compassion is automatically reducible to how much you are spending on a government program is a fallacy and false. Salon interview: How to have an argument with Ben Shapiro 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z Are all substances reducible to the same, universal matter? More than 2,000 years of elements: a prehistory of the periodic table 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z All of the beautiful and painful mess of human interactions was reducible to a data point in the social graph. I was one of the first people on Facebook. I shouldn't have trusted Mark Zuckerberg 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z Each song floated complicated politics and neither was easily reducible to a slogan. Will the CMA Awards face reality? – LA Times 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z They “supervene” on physical phenomena, as philosophers say, but are not reducible to them. Free Will Is Real 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z Obama’s approach often seemed reducible to a single imperative: Don’t make things worse. Obama’s secret struggle to punish Russia for Putin’s election assault 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z He argued that every substance was reducible to particular forms of sulfur, mercury and salt. More than 2,000 years of elements: a prehistory of the periodic table 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Authoritarian followers pretend life is reducible to machine-like cause and effect algorithms. How authoritarian leaders get away with it 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z Kerry says diplomacy requires “creativity, patience and commitment to a steady grind often away from the spotlight,” and that results are “rarely immediate or reducible to 140-character bites.” Kerry appeals for diplomacy as he leaves State Department 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Nor is he reducible to a methodology of decoding. I do not recognise the stereotype of John Berger as a dour Marxist – his work embodied hope 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z Are we demeaning a presidential election by saying it is reducible to sound bites? The Trump Mosh Pit 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z But is our intelligence reducible to our biology? ‘The Turing Test’ review: An AI game that achieves a rare harmony of gameplay and narrative 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z While the lure of jihadism isn’t reducible to economic stagnation, the idleness generated by high taxes, rigid labor laws and endless red tape doesn’t help. The Bedouin Billionaire for Muslim Integration 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z Prof. Tiya Miles, a historian at the University of Michigan, admires both candidates but is more drawn to Mrs. Clinton’s notion of multiple, intersecting “barriers,” not all reducible to economics. How Clinton and Sanders Pursue Change, Academically Speaking 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z There are degrees, of course, but political disputes are always reducible to identity, and to the qualities and beliefs that constitute it. Donald Trump and the conservative psyche: What Republican operatives don’t understand about the Donald’s transcendent appeal 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z If a system has Φmax = 0, meaning that its cause–effect power is completely reducible to that of its parts, it cannot lay claim to existing. Can Integrated Information Theory Explain Consciousness? 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z Terrorism is a hydra-headed problem, and it’s not reducible to a single cause – religion and politics and economics and foreign policy and institutional corruption are critical variables. The left has an Islam problem: If liberals won’t come to terms with religious extremism, the xenophobic right will carry the day 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Her stories are not reducible to her; rather, they are written from within a tradition that encompasses her and at the same time allows her to express herself. Elena Ferrante on Sense and Sensibility: ‘I was passionate about Austen's anonymity’ 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z Indeed it’s reducible to a single cause: America’s “cultural decay.” Bobby Jindal can’t get more despicable than this: His ugly response to the Oregon shooting is why he deserves to be losing 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z They have encountered a Catholicism that is not reducible to party politics but offers an integral vision of human life. The Gift of the Millennial Catholic to the Church 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z It crystallizes their belief that foreign policy is reducible to an easily digestible set of buzzwords and historical analogies. Iran Is Not Nazi Germany And Mark Steyn Is Not Winston Churchill 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z By that, I mean that it is an understanding of the world and of the human beings within it as nothing but markets — and an understanding of human beings as fully reducible to market actors. Neoliberalism poisons everything: How free market mania threatens education — and democracy 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z Here’s a Tweet of mine, focused on reducible seismic threat to schools worldwide: Potent New Nepal Earthquake Compounds Relief and Rebuilding Challenge 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z But will madness, that most solitary of afflictions and most social of maladies, be reducible at last to biology and nothing but biology? Mad Science: The Treatment of Mental Illness Fails to Progress [Excerpt] 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z "The serious political and economic situation is being presented as if it is reducible to gestures and posturing." Puzzle over Varoufakis 'fake finger' 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z It made that decision on the basis that whole-life orders were not "reducible". Murderer loses whole-life challenge 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z In our data-obsessed moment, it is subversive to assert that the value of a product is not reducible to its salability. King of Clickbait | The New Yorker 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z The problem is both collective and structural in nature, and it’s not reducible to the case of a “few bad apples,” as apologists claim. If There Were Ever a Time to Abolish Frats, It's Now 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z The experience of seeing the word “honeymoon” is not reducible to the experience of seeing “honey” on the left and “moon” on the right. Neuronal "Superhub" Might Generate Consciousness 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z A long-abandoned Washington tradition hints at a simple remedy; one reducible to a single word, in fact: gin. Is This the Solution to Partisan Gridlock in Washington? 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z If we fully understood the workings of our brains, free will would likely be reducible to observable processes. Learning How Little We Know About the Brain 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z If the troubled modern politics of the EU is reducible to any single factor, it is surely wild asymmetry. Don’t dismiss public fears about migration as mere bigotry 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z “This job requires intellect and analysis — and forceful personality. It isn’t reducible to smiley faces and Hello Kitty dolls. If I become someone I’m not, then I lose.” David Catania’s passion cuts two ways as he runs for D.C. mayor This week Blair claimed that third way politics was reducible to “helping the individual to help themselves, and to gain control over their own lives and choices”. Tesco and Tony Blair: two eras brought low by hubris 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z The tea party temperament is often accompanied by an easily reducible political theory. The tea party risks scaring away voters Consciousness depends on a physical substrate but is not reducible to it. Is Consciousness Universal? 2014-01-01T05:45:00.400Z Production of anilines—key intermediates for the fine chemical, agrochemical, and pharmaceutical industries—relies on precious metal catalysts that selectively hydrogenate aryl nitro groups in the presence of other easily reducible functionalities. [Report] Nanoscale Fe2O3-Based Catalysts for Selective Hydrogenation of Nitroarenes to Anilines 2013-12-04T22:56:07.411Z The chemistry of the elements may not be fully reducible to quantum mechanics. Readers Respond to "Quantum Weirdness" 2013-09-21T11:15:00.690Z Meaning that a good stroll or swim will probably never be fully reducible to tablet form. Well: Exercise in a Pill? The Search Continues 2013-07-17T04:01:22Z And those costs have three large reducible components — call centers, service dispatches — to fix problems reported to the call centers, and churn.” Absent Big Acquisitions, Four Ways To Save Telecom Carriers From Extinction 2013-06-19T12:33:00Z Every opera you’ve ever heard, every painting you’ve ever admired is reducible to chemical signaling in the composer’s or artist’s brain. Assessing the Creative Spark 2013-05-09T11:00:40Z There is a strong set of Catholic teaching in which the rhetoric of pro-creation is not reducible to the prohibition of prophylaxis. For Catholics, a new kind of pro-creation 2013-03-26T17:44:52Z The Obama effect was not ephemeral anymore, no longer reducible to what had once been mocked as “that hopey-changey stuff.” Person of the Year: Barack Obama, Architect of the New America 2012-12-19T13:05:34Z The members of any one age group are not reducible to a few distinguishing structural changes in the brain. The Neuroscience of Twenty-Somethings 2012-08-29T15:45:03.363Z "The problem is that the big areas where power is being exercised – finance, managerial theory, computers – are not reducible to dramatic stories," he told the Guardian. Adam Curtis argues TV needs 'new tools' to tell its stories 2012-08-22T12:32:03Z It is complex, not reducible to single variable analysis. Where has the retail investor gone? 2012-08-17T20:24:00Z In the first place, the structure of both plants and animals is reducible to a common fundamental unit of organization. Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics 2012-05-22T15:16:53.140Z Thus, then, the subject exists and is not reducible to the object. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z 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 English law treats all unlawful killing not reducible to manslaughter as of the same degree of guilt in law. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z Still some of the higher elements of personality rise above this threshold, are reducible to philosophical principles, and amenable to rational control. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z Now we shall find, I think, that all the phenomena of hysteria are reducible to the same general conception. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z Thus, these multitudinous forms of living creatures, both animals and plants, are reducible to certain categories in harmony with their modes of life, and the relations existing between them and all surrounding influences. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z A “reducible” hernia is one in which the contents can be pushed back into the abdomen. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z Whatever I had learned, it seemed, was of no practical value; my multiple sensations were not reducible to the simplest demand. San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z But, as will be seen, the other conditions of the comparison are not reducible to, or expressible in, similar terms, and so far the legitimate deduction fails. The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 2011-12-24T03:07:52.717Z This group is obviously reducible; in fact, the sum of the symbols remain unaltered by every substitution of the group. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z “Any proposition,” says Auguste Comte, “which is not finally reducible to the simple enunciation of a particular or general fact, is incapable of holding a real or intelligible meaning.” The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z The palliative treatment of a reducible hernia consists in pushing back the contents of the tumour into the abdomen and applying a truss or elastic bandage to prevent their again escaping. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z The whole of these, however, reducible into a few words, may be pretty well summed up in the caution,—Look to your drains. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 62, Jan 13, 1872 2011-12-12T03:00:30.070Z Thus, then, although it can be demonstrated that perfect insects, however much they differ in appearance, are yet reducible to one type, the fact becomes much more evident if we compare the larvæ. On the Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects 2011-12-05T03:00:46.667Z This was certainly a novel method of accomplishing an end by a sweeping monopoly; but the theory was too fine-spun ever to be reducible to practice. A Treatise on Sheep: The Best Means for their Improvement, General Management, and the Treatment of their Diseases. 2011-12-04T03:00:03.890Z Bismuth is a semi-metal of a yellowish or reddish cast, but little subject to change in the air; harder than lead, but easily broken, and reducible to powder. Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry 2011-10-11T02:01:05.817Z The sentiments of love, of reverence, of worship, are not, as yet, reducible to logical processes; they are intuitions, spontaneous emotions, incomprehensible to the keen and cold intellect. My Path to Atheism 2011-08-30T02:00:29.183Z The first of these is constant for any particular product of combustion independently of the method by which the burning is effected, whether by oxygen, air or a reducible metallic oxide. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z And yet for all the collective self-loathing that attended the debt ceiling talks, it’s important to remember that, like just about everything in human behavior, it was still reducible to a game. The Debt Deal: The Case for Caving 2011-08-04T03:18:13Z He starts from the Spinozistic thought that bodily facts and conscious facts, though not reducible one to the other, are different sides of one reality. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z The system, of course, was never reducible to Mubarak. Egypt: Activists, Generals Part Ways on Post-Mubarak Path 2011-06-02T09:10:00Z The eye as an optical mechanism is reducible to a single lens and therefore the image focused upon the retina is inverted. Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications 2011-06-02T02:00:25.247Z The use of money was a science like every other branch of benevolence, not reducible to any fixed principles. Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:19.953Z But Trotter is under no necessity of tracing back the herd instinct, for he characterizes it as primary and not further reducible. Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego 2011-04-17T02:00:02.907Z The rebels' leverage in truce talks, in fact, is largely reducible to that which Western countries are prepared to do for them on the battlefield. NATO's Air War Has Not Dislodged Gaddafi 2011-04-13T06:48:31Z And then all the physical, chemical, and substantial changes in the material universe are reducible to this common denominator! Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z Preliminary experiments with rubber compounded with large proportions of finely divided mineral matter, such as carbon black, show that the load-stretch curves obtained autographically are likewise reducible to equilateral hyperbolæ. The Preparation of Plantation Rubber 2011-03-09T03:00:40.870Z All our different Desires and Passions proceed from and are reducible to this one Point, Uneasiness, tho' the Means we propose to ourselves for expelling of it are infinite. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z Digestion is a compound function easily reducible to some of the simple ones which have been enumerated. Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman 2011-02-28T03:00:32.460Z If it is an injustice to honor, it is reducible to contumely; if it is an injury to fame, it pertains to defamation, etc. Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities 2011-02-24T03:00:54.237Z From the days of Grecian atomism men have attempted to show that all change in the Universe is ultimately reducible to changes of place, order, spatial arrangement and collocation, of those hypothetical atomic factors. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z "The corporate tax affairs of an organisation with the global footprint of Barclays are complex, and not reducible to simplistic comparisons," said a Barclays spokesman. Protesters target Barclays over tax avoidance 2011-02-19T15:53:44Z Borchers predicted that, at the high temperatures available with the electric furnace, every oxide would prove to be reducible by the action of carbon, and this prediction has in most instances been justified. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" 2011-01-29T03:00:23.777Z Page 17—reducable amended to reducible—"... all household tales are reducible to a primeval root ..." British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z Thankfully, selective college admissions remains an art and not a science, and since it involves people making judgments about other people, it is a process that is not easily reducible to a formula. The Choice: Middlebury Dean Says SAT or ACT Score Is 'Seldom a Deal Breaker' 2010-10-15T14:45:00Z To transfer qualitative change from object to subject, from matter to mind, is certainly something very different from explaining it as reducible to quantitative or mechanical change. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z Against that backdrop, both these tales are reducible to the fate of two models of left-bohemian utopianism, and the various hopes, delusions and problems therein. Document and Eyewitness by Neil Taylor and Shadowplayers by James Nice 2010-08-13T23:05:00Z Or is its vision for the state-reliant parts of the UK reducible to a banal faith in the free market? Why the north-south divide will soon become a chasm 2010-08-08T20:00:00Z Labour, meanwhile, served notice that it was abandoning high-street billboards altogether – a move largely reducible to the dreadful state of its finances, but it fitted neatly into the bigger story. Welcome to the first e-election 2010-03-17T08:00:00Z But his national security résumé is short, his genial temperament may be unsuited to political combat, and his approach to terrorism is guided more by case-specific pragmatism than an overarching ideology reducible to sound-bites. 2010-02-15T05:01:00Z Mr Cooper said he also wanted to determine whether the minimum sentence if convicted - life without parole - would be "reducible". 2010-02-04T14:35:00Z According to this doctrine, mental activity is ultimately reducible to 786 particular feelings, impressions, ideas, which are disparate and unconnected, until chance Association brings them together. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" This at least is known, that Fox declared his suspicion of the whole, saying, that it was at once too daring to be intelligible, and too indefinite to be reducible to practice. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 It is true, indeed, that we are under no antecedent obligation to maintain the existence of an activity that is not entirely reducible to the type of everyday cause and effect. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude Arithmetic is the science of numbers, and all other mathematical sciences are ultimately reducible to numbers. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy They were nobody's at all—too proud, unlike base animals and humans, to be reducible to anything so narrow. The Spoils of Poynton The current year will be given by the Julian period, reducible to any desired epoch, and, contained in the solar cycle, the golden number and the Roman cycle. The Borghesi Astronomical Clock in the Museum of History and Technology Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, Paper 35, the Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 240 When a modern physical philosopher declares that everything, even life and thought, is ultimately reducible to matter, we cannot always be certain that he means what he seems to say. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" Since reasoning involves association, it must be reducible to bare association; the sequence of the process is just sequence and nothing more. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude Caricatured as his types purposely are, they are all easily reducible to natural dimensions and properties; while occasionally, though all too rarely, the author drops his mask and speaks gravely, seriously, and then always wisely. A Short History of French Literature What Jason had been in mythology, Roland became in legend, the first Occidental custodian of chivalry’s golden fleece, which, he gone, was found reducible to just four words—Death rather than dishonor. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern Civil rights, we may remember, are reducible to three primary heads; the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty; and the right of private property. Dissertation on Slavery With a Proposal for the Gradual Abolition of it, in the State of Virginia Prescription in legal theory implies a grant, so that corporations by prescription would be reducible to the class of chartered or statutory corporations. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" It has ignored the actual causes in the nature and history of things, and has substituted for them non-existent desirable causes, ultimately reducible to a single, eternal, beneficent spirit, omnipotent and free. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude It is applied to them simply because they are not reducible by the ordinary processes to the First Figure. Logic, Inductive and Deductive Purity in decomposition. weather; the greater number only after being mechanically pulverized; but the sand and clay to which by one or the other process they are reducible, are both remarkable for their purity. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) The guiding principles in such a comparison are reducible chiefly to two. Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary On principle they seem to be mostly reducible to Mistake. failure of the acceptance to correspond with the offer, or absence of any real consideration for the promise. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" The languages of Great Britain are reducible to two divisions, both of which agree in many essential points with certain languages or dialects of Continental Europe. The Ethnology of the British Islands All the other methods therefore whereby corporations exist, by common law, by prescription, and by act of parliament, are for the most part reducible to this of the king's letters patent, or charter of incorporation. Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the First The compound oxydable and acidifiable radicals from the vegetable and animal kingdoms, enumerated in the foregoing table, are not hitherto reducible to systematic nomenclature, because their exact analysis is as yet unknown. Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries The various modes in which these parts are capable of combination, and the merits of buildings of different form and expression, are evidently not reducible into lists, nor to be estimated by general laws. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) A really good, well organized lecture where the lecturer has had ample time, or when he has already delivered it a few times, should be reducible to one or two pages of notes. The Art of Lecturing Revised Edition The complaint against the church today is reducible to this: that she standardizes her ideals and her policies in accordance with the prosperous and well-to-do. The Evolution of the Country Community A Study in Religious Sociology All other species of government, they say, are either corruptions of, or reducible to, these three. Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the First The human, like all other species, has inherent principles quite special to itself, and all these principles are summed up in, or are reducible to, a single principle, which we call solidarity. Anarchism and Socialism All conceivable manifestations of nature are natural, nor can we doubt that all are reducible to law—that is to say, that they can be classified and reduced to systems. A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science The scheme of Sir Robert Peel is reducible to a few points, which we shall now proceed to review seriatim. Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 I also think that the habit of taking for granted that social problems are reducible to such an alternative, is the source of innumerable fallacies. Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) Addresses to Ethical Societies The mere physical advantages which wealth can procure, are reducible to the short sum of "meat, fire, and clothes." Practical Education, Volume II The ph�nomenon of imperfect incorporation is reducible to the following rules:— 1. A Handbook of the English Language Every person with a reducible rupture should wear a proper truss until the rupture is cured by some means. The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) These are reducible to two, which I shall endeavor to state as clearly and as forcibly as possible. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive Plato held that all our cognitions are reducible to two elements--one derived from sense, the other from pure reason; one element particular, contingent, and relative, the other universal, necessary, and absolute. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles The couplet in 17 may alone be original and 18, the text of which is reducible neither to metre nor wholly to sense, a prose note upon it. Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 Expressions like to go on all fours, and to eat of the fruit of the tree, are reducible to ellipses. A Handbook of the English Language In very small or large hernias, and in those which are not reducible, the action of the truss is not so effective. The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) How, then, shall we have to express these facts, if the theory be finally substantiated that all Force is reducible to a previous Motion? A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive All our acts are reducible to one of two kinds: either they are acts of creation, effecting a new result, or they are acts of repetition. The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life These arguments appear to us reducible to the following general propositions, viz. Report of the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations on the Petition of the Honourable Thomas Walpole, Benjamin Franklin, John Sargent, and Samuel Wharton, Esquires, and their Associates 1772 In pictorial art the science of light and dark is not reducible to working formulae as in decoration, where the measures of Notan are governed on the principle of interchange. Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures These are reducible to two, which I shall endeavour to state as clearly and as forcibly as possible. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) But, save for checks all ultimately reducible to the fear of want, checks which it is the essential object of a Poor Law to relax, population would rapidly, in any old country, overtake subsistence. The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Our task is reducible to a very clear and very brief question: What are the forms of association that give rise to new combinations and under what influences do they arise? Essay on the Creative Imagination Lastly, anamirtin is found in the mother water of picrotoxin; it is not bitter, not poisonous, and not reducible by the aforementioned reagents. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines The inflected verb is reducible to five tenses, with an imperative, two participles, and a verbal noun or infinitive. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature The various processes that remain to notice are essentially reducible to two types, of which the French method, invented by Challeton, and the German, invented it appears by Weber, are the original representatives. Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel Those many Fathers whom you represented as hostile, prove on investigation to be reducible to one, viz. The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark It is definite: in some way or another and in some degree the imagination has become rationalized, but this change is not reducible to a single formula. Essay on the Creative Imagination That which partakes of the property of analysis, and is reducible thereby. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. In what is usually called the Norman period, the general proportions and outlines of the Churches are reducible to certain rules of setting out by the plain Square. Science and the Infinite or Through a Window in the Blank Wall Whilst he admired he remembered: individual faults or excellencies, he found to be reducible to common causes. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 This list of ideals is miscellaneous, and ethically reducible to more fundamental concepts, but these are the terms in which men are ordinarily conscious of their most intimate purposes. The Approach to Philosophy The diversities in creation, however numerous, should be reducible to types that are varieties of imagination, and the determination of these varieties is analogous to that of character as related to will. Essay on the Creative Imagination It is all reducible to natural history, the essence of which consists in arrangement. A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' As to the composition of dances, it is impossible for a professor of this art, to make any figure without a competent stock of original ideas, reducible into practice. A Treatise on the Art of Dancing No matter how subtle a natural phenomenon may be, whether we observe it in the region of sense, or follow it into that of imagination, it is in the long run reducible to mechanical laws. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Its teaching is not founded on one idea, or reducible to certain formulæ. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin Taking it altogether, the only great division possible between the different types of imagination is perhaps reducible to this: To speak more exactly, there are exterior and interior imaginations. Essay on the Creative Imagination Most legal actions in the West of Ireland are reducible to trespass or assault. Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918 The stuff out of which all vegetable appearances are made is reducible to oxygen, hydrogen, carbon and nitrogen. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators Chemists have taught us that all matter is reducible to certain elementary forms to which they give this name. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 This design is reducible to that shown in figure 290, but is simpler, yet not less effective. Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 Its processes reducible to two, viz.: personification, transformation. Essay on the Creative Imagination A hernia is reducible when the displaced organ can be returned to its natural location. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse To see a thing in a mirror, however, is to see a cause by an effect in which its likeness is shown; thus speculation seems reducible to meditation. On Prayer and The Contemplative Life Religious belief, like all belief, is reducible to judgments. The Moral Economy Owls have very expressive notes; p. 115they hoot in a fine vocal sound, much resembling the vox humana, and reducible by a pitch-pipe to a musical key. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 Despite this it seems, however, reducible to two principal types or processes, which are personification, and transformation or metamorphosis. Essay on the Creative Imagination 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 skull of the lamprey is readily reducible to the same plan of structure as that which is exhibited by the tadpole when its gills are still external and its blood colourless. Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology She wants me to be some sort of tremendous creature—all her ideas are reducible to that. The Tragic Muse We now see further that the physiological effects themselves are ultimately reducible to simple physical phenomena. Response in the Living and Non-Living In order to understand it and perceive the how and why of it, let us first note that myths are reducible to two great categories: a. Essay on the Creative Imagination He starts by assuming that, as all words are reducible to nouns as a first principle, so the whole of the nouns can be classified into forty "genera." Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men These functions appear to be reducible to three groups, namely: Sensation, Correlation, and Ideation. Hume (English Men of Letters Series) He believed it was all reducible to laws, and could be made as intelligible as the growth of the chalk cliffs or the coal measures. Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists But the things that have to be done in cases of danger are not, like the things to be avoided, reducible to some common thing. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province The contemporary theories regarding the nature of the unconscious seem to me reducible to two principal positions—one psychological, the other physiological. Essay on the Creative Imagination Slags containing sulphides are especially apt to retain the more easily reducible metals. A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. In mechanical causation, which is found in Astronomy and all branches of Physics, the effects are all reducible to modes of energy, and are therefore commensurable with their causes. Logic Deductive and Inductive Was he pursuing his principles, moderate as they were in the original conception, with fanaticism, or at the best preferring a solemn consistency of theory to the conscientious handling of facts not reducible to theory? Abraham Lincoln Nevertheless such vices are apparently reducible to the genus of intemperance, by way of excess: for instance, if a man delight in eating human flesh, or in committing the unnatural vice. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province It is also necessary to study the effects produced either in the crucible or in the blast furnace, and to examine the ores which for a long while have been regarded as not reducible. Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882 The chemists now count some sixty elements, ultimately, as some of them think, reducible into one; and the gospel, like the wind, may blow from every point under heaven. Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc A Compound Proposition, reducible to two or more simple ones, is said to be exponible. Logic Deductive and Inductive But the will that is at variance with erring reason is not reducible to some species of malice. Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition But excess of play does not seem reducible to any of the capital vices. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province I answer that, A thing can be in a genus in two ways; either absolutely and properly, as a species contained under a genus; or as being reducible to it, as principles and privations. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition Our one efficient political science hinges on selfinterest, and the uniform action of motives among the masses of mankind—of selfish motives reducible to system. Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc In that department of language denominated Etymology, we shall contend that all words are reducible to two general classes, nouns and verbs; or, things and actions. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. Now every movement of the appetitive power is reducible to one either of pursuit or of avoidance. Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition Now prayer is not reducible to any of these operations. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province In this way therefore, by the power of another—namely, of God—they are mutable, inasmuch as they are producible from nothing by Him, and are by Him reducible from existence to non-existence. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition This condition is often due to carelessness of a patient in not keeping in a reducible rupture with a proper support. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada But the whole are reducible to five colors: yellow, a generation from white; red, a deeper shade of yellow; blue, a strong tint of red; and black, the extreme tint of blue. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. But the limit of anything is reducible to the genus of that of which it is the limit; as a point is reducible to the genus of line. Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition And it is evident that goodness of counsel and goodness of judgment are not reducible to the same cause, for many can take good counsel, without having good sense so as to judge well. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Therefore it seems that they are reducible to the uniform movements of heavenly bodies, as to their principles. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition Apart from the case of craftsmanship and artistic production, all the higher industrial efforts are reducible to a control of others, and can be made only by men who have the means of controlling them. A Critical Examination of Socialism But on the other hand Science can deal with these materials only on the condition that they are reducible to invariable laws. The Relations Between Religion and Science Eight Lectures Preached Before the University of Oxford in the Year 1884 Therefore virtue is reducible to the genus of power, and not to the genus of habit. Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition Since however all these things are intended for the direction of the aforesaid three acts of reason, it follows that all the opposite defects are reducible to the four parts mentioned above. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province But whether it be, or be not, reducible to the class of allegorieo-ecclesiastico- political satire, certainly no person of critical discernment can for a moment allow it to be a literal statement of historic events. The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic But if this apparently vital operation were explicable as a simple mechanism, might not other vital operations be reducible to the same category? Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews In every congregation it is reducible to a certainty that, before a year has passed, some will be numbered with the dead. Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series Now every accidental cause is reducible to the direct cause. Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition Hence, then, the fact, that all exact science is reducible, by an ultimate analysis, to results measured in equal units of linear extension. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library All of these phenomena are reducible to a few simple fundamental activities, and these fundamental activities we find manifested by simple bits of living matter unincumbered by the complicated machinery of organisms. The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity The Characters, which are interspers’d in it, being reducible to a very narrow Compass, and the main Body of it consisting of miscellaneous Reflexions. A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings From his translation of The Moral Characters of Theophrastus (1725) This influence I believe to be reducible to more elementary terms. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. Objection 1: It would seem that not all the moral precepts of the Old Law are reducible to the ten precepts of the decalogue. Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition It should be recollected that earths, metallic oxides, and metallic acids are soluble in borax, except those of the easily reducible metals, such as platinum or gold, or of mercury, which too readily vaporize. A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe Being A Graduated Course Of Analysis For The Use Of Students And All Those Engaged In The Examination Of Metallic Combinations We are thus brought, by a close examination of facts, rather to the idea that the properties of the ether are not wholly reducible to the rules of ordinary mechanics. The New Physics and Its Evolution It would be a curious circumstance if all indusiate ferns were to be found reducible to a marginal production of the reproductive apparatus. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries It is stated that this method of treatment is applicable to all ores, the most refractory being readily reducible by its means. Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 Therefore the moral precepts are not reducible to all the precepts of the decalogue. Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition That portion of it which is most reducible to points of argument has been stated, and, I trust, truly. Evidence of Christianity All poetical feet consist either of two, or of three syllables; and are reducible to eight kinds; four of two syllables, and four of three, as follows: DISSYLLABLE. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures To-morrow I examine Ceterach, assured that the scales of its under face are reducible to the same type. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries The world in little is not reducible to a microscopic point. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 But moral precepts do not seem to be capable of division, except in so far as they are reducible to the precepts of the decalogue. Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition By confounding you with a variety of projects, they perplex your resolutions, and lead you from executing what is in your power, by engaging you in schemes not reducible to practice. The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant Deficient in imagination, he always saw life on its material side, and was irritated by any display of emotion not reducible to logic. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 Competition is an essentially economic method as contrasted with the legal and personal methods above and later described, because it is impersonal and reducible to a rule of value. Modern Economic Problems Economics Volume II The notice of beauties and faults, thus limited, will make no distinct part of the design, being reducible to the explanation of some obscure passages. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces I hold he developed the word logically from an arbitrary assumption that the whole universe of being was reducible to measurable and commeasurable and exact and consistent expressions. An Englishman Looks at the World Their claims upon us are described as a modification of the Golden Rule—as one of the many forms to which its obligations are reducible. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 4 of 4 The fact, therefore, that the crime is reducible to some different head, is not an objection. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 All mental action is ultimately reducible to "the continuous differentiation and integration of states of consciousness." History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time The number of two, for instance, is but two units; the number of four is reducible to one repeated four times. The Existence of God When our Universities found that there was no End of Wrangling this Way, they invented a kind of Argument, which is not reducible to any Mood or Figure in Aristotle. The Spectator, Volume 2. Vast as the subject appears, it is easily reducible within such limits as will make it comprehensive without being wearisome, and render its study both instructive and amusing. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 The canons of pecuniary decency are reducible for the present purpose to the principles of waste, futility, and ferocity. Theory of the Leisure Class In any case philosophy retains as an inalienable possession the negative conclusion, that, in view of the heterogeneity of consciousness and motion, the inner life is not reducible to material phenomena. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time So that all the penalties of the law are, for him, reducible to fines. *n Nothing can be more aristocratic than this system of legislation. Democracy in America — Volume 1 It is neither reducible by position nor pressure. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine Our disease is not, then, absolutely incurable, and the theory of the theologians is worse than inadequate; it is ridiculous, since it is reducible to this tautology: "Man errs, because he errs." What is Property? For the purpose in hand, this differential utility on the ground of grotesqueness and instability of structure is reducible to terms of a greater scarcity and consequent expense. Theory of the Leisure Class As all intellectual phenomena have by experimentalists been reduced to sensation, so all emotion has been and is regarded as reducible to simple mental affection, the element of which all emotional manifestations are ultimately composed. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 All the causes which contribute to the maintenance of the democratic republic in the United States are reducible to three heads:— I. The peculiar and accidental situation in which Providence has placed the Americans. Democracy in America — Volume 1 In reality, "these two or three millions" were reducible, as we have said, to six hundred and thirty or forty thousand francs. Les Misérables M. Pouchet says: "I have always thought that organized beings were animated by forces which are in no way reducible to physical or chemical forces." Life: Its True Genesis As regards its generic features, this spiritual attitude or theory of life is in the last analysis reducible to terms of a prevalent type of character. Theory of the Leisure Class He conceives the form of sensibility to be reducible to the two categories of space and time. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic The conclusions are always true; but all the arguments are not and were never intended to be reducible into syllogisms demonstrative. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge It was to you soon made sensible what a sterile, blighted spot of rational nature you were in, by indications unequivocal to your perception, though, it may be, not easily reducible to exact description. An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance The effect of the light upon these substances is incipient reduction, and we might hence suppose that the more reducible indigo sensitive variety would be the more sensitive to light. Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883 All the causes which contribute to the maintenance of the democratic republic in the United States are reducible to three heads: I. The peculiar and accidental situation in which Providence has placed the Americans. American Institutions and Their Influence It should be evident that such empirical collections are not reducible to a science. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic It is not generally true that Taylor's punctuation is arbitrary, or his periods reducible to the post-Revolutionary standard of length by turning some of his colons or semi-colons into full stops. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge The adorable tetractys, or tetrad, is the formula of God; which, again, is reducible into, and is, in reality, the same with, the Trinity. Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge But all these different ends are reducible to one, that it may be well with him and his. Moral Philosophy Maria Monk's "Awful Disclosures," are reducible to three classes: intolerable sensuality; diversified murder; and most scandalous mendacity: comprehending flagrant, and obdurate, and unceasing violations of the sixth, seventh, and ninth commandments. Awful Disclosures Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never before Published Not that there is a special Linguistic; but the linguistic science sought for, general Linguistic, in so far as what it contains is reducible to philosophy, is nothing but Aesthetic. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Variously described by various writers, the actual circumstance seems reducible to this. Steam, Steel and Electricity Indeed, the heptad of things finite is in all cases reducible to the pentad. Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge With respect to the dialogue, his share in its composition is reducible to a compass not much more considerable. Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02 I amuse myself at times with the fancy that Homer, Sappho, and Aristophanes are the inviolable Trinity of poetry, even to the extent of being reducible to One. Lysistrata But there is also contained in it the proposition: that the facts examined are reducible to a definite principle or category of the spirit. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic All of Ibsen's problems became in the last instance reducible to a single relationship—that between the individual and his own self. Pan We do not know any such law, but what we have seen assures us it is one observing and reducible to mathematical formulæ. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation A tall, fissured rock, of the hardest porphyritic greenstone, high raised from the valley-sole, facing north-west, and reducible to two main blocks, is scattered over with these "inscriptions," that spread in all directions. The Land of Midian — Volume 2 Q.--Are the motions of the conical pendulum or governor reducible to the same laws which apply to the common pendulum? A Catechism of the Steam Engine The principles of the Emperor are not reducible to the hard and definite lines of a philosophic system. Seekers after God Paley's whole system is reducible to this one precept:—"Obey God, and benefit your neighbour, because you love yourself above all." Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. The solids, liquids, and aeriform fluids of our globe are all, as has been stated, reducible into fifty-five substances hitherto called elementary. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation How far Style is reducible to law will be examined in the next chapter. The Principles of Success in Literature They are all reducible to one—exhaustion of the will, the prime element of personality. Across the Zodiac Many other hypotheses are conceivable, but most will be reducible to one or other of these. The Faith of the Millions (2nd series) On the other hand, Murray might have improved, if such a quantity of alloy, as she called it, were, in any man, reducible, and if Paris were the place all happily to reduce it. The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 The laws of thought are all reducible to the three following axioms, which are known as The Three Fundamental Laws of Thought. Deductive Logic Each of these historical changes was, of course, originally due to adaptation; it was, in other words, physiological, and reducible to mechanical causes. The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 The difficulty is, however, often reducible into that of knowing what gives one pleasure, and this, though difficult, is a safer guide and more easily distinguished. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler In his ethics and system of life, as well as in his religion, there was the same intolerance of a multiplicity which was not reducible to unity. Clara Hopgood There are two species of phyllotaxis, perfectly distinct, and we suppose, not mathematically reducible the one to the other, viz.: Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism As the dilemma is only a peculiar variety of the partly conjunctive syllogism, we should naturally expect to find it reducible in the same way to the form of a simple syllogism. Deductive Logic The first fallacy is to assume that all forms of utility are reducible to one another or to money terms. After the Rain : how the West lost the East To all Russian critics the whole import of Christ's command seemed reducible to the fact that it would hinder them from the active opposition to evil to which they are accustomed. The Kingdom of God Is Within You From that time, the universe has steadily become more complex and less reducible to a central control. Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres The question of pre-eminence between the Ancients and Moderns is reducible to another. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth As the partly conjunctive syllogism is thus reducible to the simple form, it follows that violations of its laws must correspond with violations of the laws of simple syllogism. Deductive Logic Now, for a space, let us consider some other things that are necessary to it, and which I am driven to call its moral qualities, and which are finally reducible to two—order and meaning. Hopes and Fears for Art Reduction.—Like most other metals not easily reducible by C or H, it was originally obtained by electrolysis, but more recently from its chloride, by the reducing action of strongly heated K or Na. An Introduction to Chemical Science Neither words nor ideas reducible to words constitute the utmost limit of human capacity. Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners None are simpler than these, since they are reducible to the axiom which assumes the rights of man, and subordinate to them every institution, old or new. The French Revolution - Volume 1 Wholly conjunctive syllogisms do not differ essentially from simple ones, to which they are immediately reducible. Deductive Logic All simultaneously generated engrams are associated; there is also association of successively aroused engrams, though this is reducible to simultaneous association. The Analysis of Mind No one wants to see that America was never reducible to this romantic picture. The Civilization of Illiteracy This matter seems reducible to a moral equation. Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners P. The metaphysicians maintain that all action is reducible to motion and thinking, and that the latter is the origin of the former. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 This is subject to the same laws as the simple sorites, to which it is immediately reducible. Deductive Logic It is clear that an emotion is essentially complex, and we have to inquire whether it ever contains any non-physiological material not reducible to sensations and images and their relations. The Analysis of Mind They are not reducible to language, although they are connected to its experience. The Civilization of Illiteracy We hear it maintained by people of more gravity than understanding, that genius and taste are strictly reducible to rules, and that there is a rule for everything. Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners A dynamic theory would begin by assuming that all history, terrestrial or cosmic, mechanical or intellectual, would be reducible to this formula if we knew the facts. The Education of Henry Adams Inasmuch however as every complex proposition is reducible to a simple one, it is evident that the same laws of inference must apply to both. Deductive Logic Now it is possible, of course, to take the view advocated by Professor J. S. Haldane, who contends that physiology is not theoretically reducible to physics and chemistry.* The Analysis of Mind Learning language is not reducible to the memorization of expressions. The Civilization of Illiteracy He could readily understand Hawksley's part; but Kitty's wasn't reducible to ordinary terms of expression. The Drums of Jeopardy The chance is reducible to cold, pitiless figures, and a few of these figures will not be out of place. The People of the Abyss All fancies are not so easily reducible to actual facts as the one we have taken, but all, perhaps, eventually may be explicable in the same general way. The Soul of the Far East We have seen that they are subject to mnenic causation, and that mnenic causation may be reducible to ordinary physical causation in nervous tissue. The Analysis of Mind The code of language and visual codes are not reducible to each other; neither is their pragmatic function the same. The Civilization of Illiteracy Owls have very expressive notes; they hoot in a fine vocal sound, much resembling the vox humana, and reducible by a pitch-pipe to a musical key. The Natural History of Selborne Only a limited number of them seem to be so reducible. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students Accordingly, human self-constitution today involves means of expression and communication no longer based on or reducible to literacy. The Civilization of Illiteracy Its rules are applied to forms of human interaction and evaluation that are not reducible to self-constitution in language. The Civilization of Illiteracy Indeed, the practical experience to be shared, and the subsequent practical experience of writing are different, pertinent to domains not reducible to each other. The Civilization of Illiteracy The rationality intrinsic to this new science is no longer reducible to finding the logos in things and phenomena, or to instill a logos into techné. The Civilization of Illiteracy The quality through which pleasure is experienced is not reducible to the elements involved, but it is impossible without them. The Civilization of Illiteracy Through writing, the portability of language was no longer reducible to the mobility of those speaking it. The Civilization of Illiteracy The chaotic component captured and the necessity to visually display information as it changes over time are not reducible to equations or direct observation. The Civilization of Illiteracy For instance, the belief that command of language enhances cognitive skills, although we know that cognitive processes are not exactly reducible to language, is accepted without hesitation. The Civilization of Illiteracy Some people would prefer a confirmation of culture as the more encompassing framework, containing markets but not reducible to them. The Civilization of Illiteracy This is not to say that work is reducible to sign processes or to language. The Civilization of Illiteracy Moreover, how pragmatic frameworks and characteristics of language experiences are interconditioned is a subject that involves a memetic perspective, but is not reducible to it. The Civilization of Illiteracy Moreover, politics is not reducible to sheer survival strategies, no matter how sophisticated, which are characteristic of some primates, and probably other animals. The Civilization of Illiteracy |
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