Explore Irreducibly through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Irreducibly in a sentence
Irreducibly meaning
In an irreducible manner or state.
Using Irreducibly
- The main meaning on this page is: In an irreducible manner or state.
- In the example corpus, irreducibly often appears in combinations such as: irreducibly complex, are irreducibly, is irreducibly.
Context around Irreducibly
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 5 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 13 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Irreducibly
- In this selection, "irreducibly" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, seemingly, create, frequently, complex, conjectural and singular stand out and add context to how "irreducibly" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include apparatus is irreducibly complex and arches are irreducibly complex if. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "irreducibly" sits close to words such as aami, abada and abbottabad, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with irreducibly
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Free Press, New York In other words, the flagellar apparatus is " irreducibly complex ". (13 words)
He posits that evolutionary mechanisms cannot explain the development of such "irreducibly complex" systems. (14 words)
Thus, seemingly irreducibly complex structures are merely "very complex", or they are simply misunderstood or misrepresented. (16 words)
Deconstruction denotes the pursuing of the meaning of a text to the point of exposing the supposed contradictions and internal oppositions upon which it is founded—supposedly showing that those foundations are irreducibly complex, unstable, or impossible. (37 words)
By analogy, stone arches are irreducibly complex if you remove any stone the arch will collapse—yet humans build them easily enough, one stone at a time, by building over centering that is removed afterward. (35 words)
Even looking at the mousetrap analogy, several critics have described ways in which the parts of the mousetrap could have independent uses or could develop in stages, demonstrating that it is not irreducibly complex. (34 words)
Example sentences (13)
Behe argues that the theory that irreducibly complex systems could not have evolved can be falsified by an experiment where such systems are evolved.
By analogy, stone arches are irreducibly complex if you remove any stone the arch will collapse—yet humans build them easily enough, one stone at a time, by building over centering that is removed afterward.
Deconstruction denotes the pursuing of the meaning of a text to the point of exposing the supposed contradictions and internal oppositions upon which it is founded—supposedly showing that those foundations are irreducibly complex, unstable, or impossible.
Even looking at the mousetrap analogy, several critics have described ways in which the parts of the mousetrap could have independent uses or could develop in stages, demonstrating that it is not irreducibly complex.
Free Press, New York In other words, the flagellar apparatus is " irreducibly complex ".
He also held that scientific theory, and human knowledge generally, is irreducibly conjectural or hypothetical, and is generated by the creative imagination to solve problems that have arisen in specific historico-cultural settings.
He posits that evolutionary mechanisms cannot explain the development of such "irreducibly complex" systems.
Intelligent design advocates assert that natural selection could not create irreducibly complex systems, because the selectable function is present only when all parts are assembled.
Page 74. Stated examples Behe and others have suggested a number of biological features that they believe may be irreducibly complex.
The results of such genetic algorithms are frequently irreducibly complex since the process, like evolution, both removes non-essential components over time as well as adding new components.
This raises the possibility that seemingly irreducibly complex biological features may have been achieved with a period of increasing complexity, followed by a period of simplification.
Thus only singular propositions are of subject-predicate form, and they are irreducibly singular, i.e. not reducible to a general proposition.
Thus, seemingly irreducibly complex structures are merely "very complex", or they are simply misunderstood or misrepresented.
Common combinations with irreducibly
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- irreducibly complex 11×
- are irreducibly 3×
- is irreducibly 2×
- seemingly irreducibly 2×