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Irreducibility

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ir·re·duc·i·ble  (r-ds-bl, -dy-)
adj.
Impossible to reduce to a desired, simpler, or smaller form or amount: irreducible burdens.

irre·duci·bili·ty, irre·duci·ble·ness n.
irre·duci·bly adv.


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The act that no-one else had written about the irreducibility of cells does not prove him to be wrong.
The contributors include proponents of the irreducibility of the social fundament of personal life, and others who defend the received individualist or reductionist view.
Similarly, the irreducibility of the cosmos' inorganic events to rational laws opposes the transcendental construction of the intellect through the language as its system of knowledge.
 
 
 
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