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• a  capable of being reduced
  reducible to a set of principles of human nature"- Edmund Wilson

• And indeed, how could anything that so moves us to poetry and song be so reducible to behavior and chemicals? Charles Darwin started wrestling with questions like this when he .
• At some point you hit what scientists call the terminal unit the smallest reducible component of any system and this feels like it may be it.
• The schism in Iran is not reducible to social class, ethnicity, region or generation.

• irreducible

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• Don DeLillo in Washington Post
  The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever,says DeLillo in the opening sentence of Chapter 1.
• Katharine Jefferts Schori in Religion News Service
  Novels about heterosexual partnering, however frivolous and reducible to increments of selfishness, social accident, foolish overestimations, and inflamed physical detail, do involve the perpetuation of the species and the ancient, sacralized... John Updike http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Updike&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEqzjFbTtidd-dVBIxbglDWnWEOBQ Los Angeles Times http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/books/la-bk-marcus28oct28,0,549949.story%3Fcoll%3Dla-headlines-bookreview&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFOrc6l3zEuR-fFAdDg2NmEgITu3w Oct 28, 2007 81578 109476 reducible Both the Trinity and quantum mechanics are different ways of talking in quasi-metaphorical language about what's going on in a system that isn't reducible to facts in the way we normally think of facts," Jefferts Schori said.