irreducible

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1. irreducible - Noun

2. irreducible - Adjective

Meaning

Incapable of being reduced, or brought into a different state; incapable of restoration to its proper or normal condition; as, an irreducible hernia.

Incapable of being reduced to a simpler form of expression; as, an irreducible formula.

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Principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them. Christopher Hitchens

Materialism ends up denying the existence of any irreducible subjective qualitative states of sentience or awareness. John Searle

It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience. Albert Einstein

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice. Christopher Lasch

There is no hope, as far as I can see, of pushing the postulates of economic theory back to a set of irreducible axioms. Richard Stone

As Kurt Vonnegut pointed out in his first novel, Player Piano, some people love problem-solving and tinkering-and that is the final, irreducible driver of human history. Wars and faiths and leaders come and go, but the problem-solvers' slow, steady work is the fulcrum upon which history turns. Gregory Benford

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