irreducibility

Note also that Kuhlmann conflates an irreducible group representation with a cyclic representation; irreducibility is not the same thing as cyclicity.

Archive 2009-02-01 Gordon McCabe 2009

All the better, so it would seem, to throw into relief Schelling's philosophical manliness, his sturdy willingness to embrace what the aesthetes and mere pretenders to philosophy would deny, namely the irreducibility of ardent affective life.

Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy 2000

That is, Polanyi identified this kind of irreducibility as a naturalistic impossibility, and argued that it should be recognized as such by the scientific community, so I am simply attaching his name to the principle.

Latest Articles 2009

There are interpreters of Aristotle who think that this kind of irreducibility is all that Aristotle means ” or needs to mean ” by postulating an explanatory role for substantial form.

Substance Robinson, Howard 2004

A fundamental pheonomenon I call computational irreducibility.

Wolfram Blog : Stephen Wolfram on the Quest for Computable Knowledge 2009

But computational irreducibility makes it really hard to tell.

Wolfram Blog : Stephen Wolfram on the Quest for Computable Knowledge 2009

And this is one of my favorite things about Wallace when he's at his best: he sets up an exploration of meaning that endlessly folds in on itself, so that you come away feeling that you have experienced the irreducibility of an idea, the inability to simplify virtually any idea that is explored at enough length.

Doing Something as a Reality 2009

And there is a curious sense in which the discoveries of NKS about computational irreducibility are what make Wolfram | Alpha possible.

Wolfram Blog : 7 years of NKS—and its first killer app 2009

But in a sense it is the very ubiquity of computational irreducibility that forces there to be only small islands of computational reducibility — which can readily be identified even from quite vague linguistic input.

Wolfram Blog : 7 years of NKS—and its first killer app 2009

There are limits from computational irreducibility to how easy it is to work out consequences.

Wolfram Blog : Stephen Wolfram on the Quest for Computable Knowledge 2009