reductively
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- adverb
- /rɪˈdʌktɪvli/
- Critics argue that the film presents its themes reductively, ignoring the complexities of real life.
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Watch on YouTubeWhere he goes wrong is in thinking reductively that that's all there is to Christianity.
- Where he goes wrong is in thinking reductively that that's all there is to Christianity.
- They've they've so they've treated anger so reductively.
- I think you could reductively boil down the human intellect into cognition and emotion.
Examples
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As he observes reductively, "what matters to society is whether people are likely to be nice to each other, not their motives." (n69)
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I think you could reductively boil down the human intellect into cognition and emotion.
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Where he goes wrong is in thinking reductively that that's all there is to Christianity.
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In the traditional, institutionalized school, students can demonstrate their learning only in a static, reductively measured way.
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However, Goodwin and Jasper also argue (and we agree) that the concept of "frames" ultimately treats culture reductively.
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Yet the disease or the poison itself does not dialectically or reductively transform into a social good; rather, its double-edged character of immunity attacks the very enclosed body of the community.
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Heidegger speaks repeatedly and quite reductively of the commodification of the world into a "world picture" where reason combined with eliminative-naturalistic categories takes a power-political effect via 'explaining away' life-forms.
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In a similar way, Socrates' account of Thales depicts Thales as someone who asked questions in the way determinative of philosophy, namely, about the natures of things, but then answered those questions reductively in terms of a material cause, only to the detriment of wonder.
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Many people see the world too reductively, thinking everything can be explained in simple terms.
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The report reductively simplifies the issue, leaving out many important factors that need consideration.
Synonyms
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To explain something too simply and leave out important details
How Reductive
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Reductively comes from the common word reduce, which means 'make smaller', so to explain something reductively is to 'shrink' a big, complex idea and leave out important details, which is why a reductive explanation feels too simple.