Definition of "irreducible" []

• Impossible to reduce to a desired, simpler, or smaller form or amount: irreducible burdens. (adjective)

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• "Behe claims that evolutionary processes cannot generate structures that exhibit what he calls irreducible complexity."
• "Nothing explains our phenomenology, but it's not the sort of physical stuff we usually think of as "physical" so I'm not physicalist, and it doesn't help to call it irreducible res cogitans either so I'm not dualist."
• "But thats precisely why you're definition of irreducible is useless, and why IC is relevant."