Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To confine or restrict (one's teaching) to elementary principles.
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The lesson is this: any attempt to trivialize or, as it were, "elementarize" language, even that of logic or mathematics, or the world, even that of physics, by reducing them to simple constitutive elements leads to a sophistication equal and sometimes exceeding that of the original situation.
From the (Ever) Complex to the (Never) Simple: A Response to R. Paul Yoder's 2001
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