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Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an integrated unit for natural selection to have anything to act on.
Michael Behe

Meaning of "irreducibly" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF IRREDUCIBLY

irreducibly  [ˌɪrɪˈdjuːsɪblɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF IRREDUCIBLY

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Irreducibly is an adverb.
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WHAT DOES IRREDUCIBLY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Irreducibility

The principle of Irreducibility, in philosophy, has the sense that a complete account of an entity will not be possible at lower levels of explanation and which has novel properties beyond prediction and explanation. Another way to state this is that Occam's razor requires the elimination of only those entities that are unnecessary, not as many entities as could conceivably be eliminated. Lev Vygotsky provides the following illustration of the idea, in his Thought and Language: "Two essentially different modes of analysis are possible in the study of psychological structures. It seems to us that one of them is responsible for all the failures that have beset former investigators of the old problem, which we are about to tackle in our turn, and that the other is the only correct way to approach it. The first method analyzes complex psychological wholes into "elements". It may be compared to the chemical analysis of water into hydrogen and oxygen, neither of which possesses the properties of the whole and each of which possesses properties not present in the whole.

Definition of irreducibly in the English dictionary

The definition of irreducibly in the dictionary is without being able to be reduced or lessened. Other definition of irreducibly is without being able to be brought to a simpler or reduced form.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH IRREDUCIBLY


accessibly
əkˈsɛsɪblɪ
coercibly
kəʊˈɜːsɪblɪ
deducibly
dɪˈdjuːsɪblɪ
defensibly
dɪˈfɛnsɪblɪ
evincibly
ɪˈvɪnsɪblɪ
impermissibly
ˌɪmpəˈmɪsɪblɪ
inaccessibly
ˌɪnəkˈsɛsɪblɪ
insensibly
ɪnˈsɛnsɪblɪ
invincibly
ɪnˈvɪnsɪblɪ
irresponsibly
ˌɪrɪˈspɒnsɪblɪ
irreversibly
ˌɪrɪˈvɜːsɪblɪ
ostensibly
ɒˈstɛnsɪblɪ
permissibly
pəˈmɪsɪblɪ
possibly
ˈpɒsɪblɪ
reducibly
rɪˈdjuːsɪblɪ
reprehensibly
ˌreprɪˈhensɪblɪ
reproducibly
ˌriːprəˈdjuːsɪblɪ
reversibly
rɪˈvɜːsɪblɪ
sensibly
ˈsensɪblɪ
tensibly
ˈtensɪblɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE IRREDUCIBLY

irredeemability
irredeemable
irredeemableness
irredeemably
irredenta
irredentism
irredentist
irreducibility
irreducible
irreducibleness
irreductibility
irreduction
irreflection
irreflective
irreflexion
irreflexive
irreformability
irreformable
irreformably
irrefragability

WORDS THAT END LIKE IRREDUCIBLY

compatibly
feasibly
flexibly
forcibly
glibly
horribly
immiscibly
impossibly
inconvincibly
incredibly
infallibly
irascibly
irresistibly
negligibly
plausibly
responsibly
tangibly
terribly
vincibly
visibly

Synonyms and antonyms of irreducibly in the English dictionary of synonyms

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TRANSLATION OF IRREDUCIBLY

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Translator English - Chinese

不能简化
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

irreductiblemente
570 millions of speakers

English

irreducibly
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Translator English - Hindi

irreducibly
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

لا يمكن اختزاله
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

неснижаемо
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

irredutivelmente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

irreducibly
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

irréductiblement
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Irreducibly
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

nicht reduzierbar
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

還元不可能
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

환원 불가능
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Irreducibly
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

không thể quy nạp
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

irreducibly
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Irreducibly
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

indirgenemez
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

irriducibilmente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nieredukowalnie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

несніжаемо
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ireductibil
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αμείωτα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

onherleibaar
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

oreducerbart
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

uavvendelige
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about irreducibly

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2 QUOTES WITH «IRREDUCIBLY»

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Michael Behe
By irreducibly complex I mean a single system composed of several well-matched, interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, wherein the removal of any one of the parts causes the system to effectively cease functioning.
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Michael Behe
Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an integrated unit for natural selection to have anything to act on.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «IRREDUCIBLY»

Discover the use of irreducibly in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to irreducibly and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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On Prime Power Elements of GLd(q) Acting Irreducibly on ...
This paper extends the results given in [GPPS]. We classify all groups G ≤ GLd(q) for which there is some semisimple element x ∈ G of prime power order which acts faithfully and irreducibly on a subspace of dimension at least d/3 .
Joseph DiMuro, 2007
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Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
In a major new Afterword for this edition, Behe explains that the complexity discovered by microbiologists has dramatically increased since the book was first published.
Michael J. Behe, 2001
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Emergent Materialism: A Proposed Solution to the Mind/body ...
It has often been said by critics of the mind-body Identity Theory that it cannot preclude the existence of 'irreducibly psychic properties'. The theory is falsified, the argument goes, if it can be shown that there are such properties. The Identity  ...
Selton Luke Peters, 1995
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Topology of Manifolds
10.14 Theorem. If S is irreducibly connected about A C S and x is a point of S such that S — x = Mi U • • • U Mn separated, n > 1, then the set Af< U x is irreducibly connected about A, ,U x, where Ai = Mi (~\ A and i = 1, • • • , n. Proof. The sets iW ...
Raymond Louis Wilder, 1949
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Seeking God in Science: An Atheist Defends Intelligent Design
An Atheist Defends Intelligent Design Bradley Monton. Darwinian means, and hence the existence of irreducibly complex biological systems provides evidence for intelligent design.35 I worry that, in calling a mind irreducibly complex, Sober is ...
Bradley Monton, 2009
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Natural Law in Jurisprudence and Politics
The aggregative conception, by not including these irreducibly social goods in the common good of the political community, is both at odds with the natural law tradition and implausible in itself. The distinctive good conception, by contrast, ...
Mark C. Murphy, 2006
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No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased ...
(as required with an irreducibly complex system, for which every part is indispensable). I refer to this objection as the incremental indispensability objection. Orr states this objection as follows: An irreducibly complex system can be built ...
William A. Dembski, 2006
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Design by Evolution: Advances in Evolutionary Design
1.4.2 Dembski's Definition William Dembski, better known in ID circles for his notion of specified complexity, claims to have generalized Behe's notion of irreducible complexity, but in fact has greatly restricted the class of irreducibly complex ...
Philip F. Hingston, Luigi C. Barone, Zbigniew Michalewicz, 2008
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Arguing about Gods
Even if we grant that the present bacterial flagellum is 'irreducibly complex' – that is, such that, if one removes any one of its parts, the whole ceases to function – it is not immediately obvious that the ancestral bacterial flagellum that we have ...
Graham Oppy, 2006
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The Nature of Nature: Examining the Role of Naturalism in ...
(1) It is impossible for an irreducibly complex system to have arisen by a direct route: “An irreducibly complex system cannot be produced directly (that is, by continuously improving the initial function, which continues to workbythe same ...
Bruce Gordon, William Dembski, 2014

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «IRREDUCIBLY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term irreducibly is used in the context of the following news items.
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Biophysicist Matt Baker Is an Intelligent Design Critic Who Doesn't …
But even if they had, that would not necessarily mean that the motor is "reducible" and "not 'irreducibly complex.'" In any case, Baker goes on to ... «Discovery Institute, Jul 15»
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Climate Change Alarmists Appear Immunized Against Reality
The four of us earlier this year wrote a (peer-reviewed) paper called “Why models run hot: results from an irreducibly simple climate model. «The Federalist, Jul 15»
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Understanding Cardiovascular Function: How the Body Controls the …
Evolutionary biologists imagine how irreducibly complex organs and their control mechanisms might have come into being. But in real life, ... «Discovery Institute, Jul 15»
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Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots review – revelations in black
... when you come to the Black Paintings, they still look irreducibly abstract in their visual lexicon, no matter how figurative they may be; and the ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
5
Love and Information – a dazzling piece of theatre
... so that the ghosts of dramatic electricity howl through the bones of a space that is irreducibly dramatic, even though it seems to be constituted ... «The Saturday Paper, Jul 15»
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Cardiovascular Function: Potassium Control and the Case for …
The system the body uses to control its potassium is irreducibly complex. Without ... Evolving irreducibly complex systems is a problem for the ... «Discovery Institute, Jul 15»
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Pursuit of Climate Truth Comes at High Cost
Burnett: Please tell us about your recent paper, “Why Models Run Hot: Results from an Irreducibly Simple Climate Model.” What did you and ... «The Heartland Institute, Jul 15»
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Looking beyond ISIS: War, politics and 'inner life' on a tribal planet
This failure is the steadfast refusal of individuals, all over the world, to seek their irreducibly core identity as persons, inside themselves. Today ... «The Hill, Jun 15»
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'The Fosters' Star Hayden Byerly Talks Jude's Development, 'Jonnor …
... what we can expect from Season 3, moving forward, as well as some of the challenges of playing a character as irreducibly complex as Jude. «Rickey.org, Jun 15»
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To Discover Irreducibly Complex Mechanisms, Biologists Reverse …
This sounds like an irreducibly complex system -- that is, a system where multiple parts are needed to enable some function: the AFD neurons, ... «Discovery Institute, Jun 15»

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