pseudoreduction
nounEtymology From pseudo- + reduction.
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Something that resembles a reduction but is not a true reduction.
- In Field's view, Tarski's truth characterization inherits its inadequacy as a reduction from the pseudoreductions that constitute its base clauses. Thus Field's strategy for solving the problem is to provide genuine reductions for the notions of denotation and application, […]1999, Scott Soames, Understanding Truth, page 109:
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Biology, Natural sciences The period of tetrad formation in nuclear division.