reductivistadj.n.

1950 Analysis 11 45 I do not see how a number of phases in Goodman's argument can be comprehended—especially those which are most severely nominalistic and reductivist.

1960 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 21 266 Mr. Rothstein's essay is introduced by a foreword..by C. A. Muses. The latter recommends Mr. Rothstein's brilliant exposition, but warns the reader against his ‘reductivist’ point of view.

1997 Church Times 21 Feb. 15/3 Van Wolde's purpose in collecting this material is to release us from any dogmatic historicist and reductivist theories of our origins, and to make us see instead..the contingencies and mysteries of human existence.

1967 Listener 13 July 45/3 Harold and Bernard Cohen were the two foremost British painters during the early 'sixties who were trying to evolve a visual language to correspond to what ‘the artist thinks’. Now both seem to have..fallen in line with current reductivist tendencies.

1984 Burlington Mag. Apr. 247/2 These small, distilled works..evoke light and weather through the most succinct means, an audible whisper from the reductivist Seventies.

2008 Art in Amer. (Nexis) 1 Apr. 173 Stuart Arends is a New Mexico-based artist whose sensually appealing, reductivist work has been the subject of numerous shows over the past three decades.

1958 Philos. Sci. 25 228/2 His point of view is that of the ‘reductivist’: ‘..generalizations at one level are explained by deduction from laws at a lower level.’

1967 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 23 Sept. 23 New York..is dominated by large numbers of artists who swim in one or two schools producing closely related works—lately, the reductivists and the remainders of the Pop people.

2001 J. Levine Purple Haze v. 128 The reductivist argues that conscious experience..can be adequately characterized by her favorite psychological or neuroscientific theory (or some combination of the two).