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How To Use irreducible In A Sentence

• If they do, we may be able dispense with irreducible moral facts.
• This tactile, sensual experience was made more poignant by the knowledge that these substances were pure, unalloyed, irreducible.
• Cayley also put a third question, a different and deeper question about irreducible invariants of a binary quantic.
• Although he did not use the term irreducible complexity the interactive nature of the protein was implicit to his analysis of the evolution of chromatin. A Different Perspective on Irreducible Complexity
• They had plenty of dark last night," Jordan pointed out, his mouth full of apparently irreducible bread. T2: INFILTRATOR
• Abelard draws the conclusion that intentionality is a primitive and irreducible feature of the mind, our acts of attending to things.
• Since an intelligent designer is not restricted to incremental change, he is able to create irreducible mechanisms without any difficulty.
• Expenditure on road repairs has been cut to an irreducible minimum.
• Remember how Driesch and his supporters fought for recognition that life transcends physics and chemistry, by arguing that the powers of regeneration in the sea urchin embryo were not explicable by a machinelike structure, and how the controversy has continued, along similar lines, between those who insisted that regulative “equipotential” or “organismic” integration was irreducible to any machinelike mechanism and was therefore irreducible also to the laws of inanimate nature. Polanyi: morphogenetic field
• The first is that there are good reasons to think that there are irreducible dispositions in nature, and that where such dispositions are manifested, there are logically necessary causal connections.