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"Reductive" criticism occurs "when some constituent of the work of art is isolated and then the whole is reduced to terms of this single isolated element," or when the work is reduced to its historical, political, or economic circumstances.
June 2010 2010
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"Reductive" criticism occurs "when some constituent of the work of art is isolated and then the whole is reduced to terms of this single isolated element," or when the work is reduced to its historical, political, or economic circumstances.
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"Reductive" criticism occurs "when some constituent of the work of art is isolated and then the whole is reduced to terms of this single isolated element," or when the work is reduced to its historical, political, or economic circumstances.
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"Reductive" criticism occurs "when some constituent of the work of art is isolated and then the whole is reduced to terms of this single isolated element," or when the work is reduced to its historical, political, or economic circumstances.
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Reductive materialism has no use for consciousness.
Continuation… 2008
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Reductive realists can, of course, explain the uniqueness of relative terms and predications without introducing relations over and above their foundations.
Medieval Theories of Relations Brower, Jeffrey 2009
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Reductive realists recognize the worry here, as well as the initial attraction of identifying relations with pairs of accidents taken jointly.
Medieval Theories of Relations Brower, Jeffrey 2009
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Reductive realists, as we have just seen, identify F and G with ordinary categorial accidents, whereas non-reductive realists identify them with accidents of sui generis type.
Medieval Theories of Relations Brower, Jeffrey 2009
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Reductive physicalists, however, are no better, since they simply deal with human cognition and qualia by failing to acknowledge their existence.
Archive 2009-05-01 James F. McGrath 2009
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Reductive physicalists, however, are no better, since they simply deal with human cognition and qualia by failing to acknowledge their existence.
Adventures in the Spirit: Part Two James F. McGrath 2009
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