Reduction

• “Reduction is supposed to inform us about proximate causes in the examined substrates.”

  Creationism, defined

• “Now, let's say that when the slow reduction of most unaccented vowels to short schwa was taking place i.e. the event I call Reduction immediately preceding Syncope, compensatory length *was already* being transferred to the previous vowel if accented.”

  Szemerenyi's Law and Mid IE

• “If you have a weak stomach, allergies to dried locusts and can not drink human urine, the Reduction is not for you.”

  Think Progress » ThinkFast AM: June 20, 2006

• “~ Tamoxifen Yields Long-term Reduction In Breast Cancer Risk -- Tamoxifen offers long-term benefits for breast cancer prevention among women at high risk of the disease, according to two randomized, blinded clinical trials in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.”

  Speedlinking 2/26/07

• “First or the Second Order, so as to constitute a syllogism, is sometimes called Reduction; and for this a simple rule may be given: Take that term of the given premise which does not occur in the conclusion (and which must therefore be the Middle), and combine it with that term of the conclusion which does not occur in the given premise; the proposition thus formed is the premise which was requisite to complete the Syllogism.”

  Logic Deductive and Inductive

• “Similarly, the United Nations’ International Strategy for Disaster Reduction is a relatively low-level effort that should be elevated to a status comparable to that of the Framework Convention on Climate Change.”

  Breaking the Global-Warming Gridlock

• “The 1% is using the super-secret Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction a.k.a. the Super Committee, to reach directly into the pockets of the 99% and steal hundreds of billions of dollars from them.”

  The Huffington Post: Nancy Altman: Message to the 99%: Help Stop the 1% From Using the Super Committee to Rob the American People

• “No surprise, this Tuesday, the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction a.k.a., the "Supercommittee" is listening to all the normal Washington insiders talk about why Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and a host of programs critically important to the American people must be sacrificed on the altar of deficit-reduction.”

  The Huffington Post: Nancy Altman: The Impact of Social Security Reform Should Be Required Reading for the Supercommittee

• “Concerns over the impacts of tourism development on the environment in some countries, including Mauritius and the Seychelles, are to be addressed through the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in a major Global Environment Fund (GEF) - funded project entitled Reduction of Environmental Impact from Coastal Tourism through Introduction of Policy Changes and Strengthening Public-Private Partnerships.”

  Western Indian Ocean Islands and coastal and marine environments

• “The foregoing method, which may be called Reduction by”

  Deductive Logic

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