reductive

Meaning to present a problem in a smaller, more crude form. Searches spiked after Madonna answered to the question "What do you think of Lady Gaga's Born This Way?" with "It's... um.. reductive".

Lady Gaga's song "Born This Way" is reductive. It is a similar song to Madonna's "Express Yourself"

by treybrown10 February 20, 2012

reductive

It's referred to someone who tries to be just like you but that person fails at their attempts.

I bought a beautiful pair of black mate shoes last week and showed them to Max... I saw him with a exact pair this morning, he's so reductive to me.

by Mary Jane Hollands April 8, 2016

Reductive

No I'm not using the racial slurs to get what I want or the threats or the insults. Those are what you're using as an excuse not to give it to me and only because 'FuCk KiDs WiLl SeE tHaT aNd ImItaTe HyM'

Hym "No, THAT is being reductive. That right there. YOU CAN'T BE ALLOWED TO DO THIS TO PEOPLE. I DON'T CARE WHAT I SAID. I DON'T WHAT I DID. AND NEITHER DO YOU. I DON'T CARE WHO DIED. IF I FAIL, THEY DIED FOR NOTHING. Unlike rape AND child killing, no one would ever do this willing. But people kill their own kids, don't they? People play rape. They even rape their own kids. But nobody would ever willing cede control of their own life and live as a second class citizen."

by Hym Iam March 23, 2024

reductive fallacy

One of the basic logical fallacies is the reductive fallacy, or in Latin, 'reductum ad absurdum'. Basically means taking a normal argument to such a far extreme (reducing it in an absurd manner) as an attempt to try to say it is wrong.

Note this is a logical fallacy. Just because one can think of some far out case.

Look man, if I give you $5 today then I'll have to give you $5 tomorrow, and then I'll be out $5 a day for the rest of my life.

by Nick November 6, 2003

reductive fallacy

aka reductio ad absurdum - the premise that something impossible is actually true, and then proving it is ludicrous

All women have blonde hair, which is false when you present a woman with brunette or red hair

by Brian Colby November 6, 2003

reductive fallacy

an error of reducing higher or more complex processes, such as human behavior and thinking, to its elementary components or material bearers, such as physiological structures or chemical reactions.

Reductive fallacies abound in the popular works of Carl Sagan. For example, he wrote in his best-selling book The Dragons of Eden": "My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings--what we sometimes call "mind"--are a conse`uence of its anatomy and physiology and nothing more".

by Mikhail Epstein November 6, 2003

Reductive House

In a reductive sense, anything with four-on-the-floor beats is House Music.

Drake, Beyonce, Lizzo and Justin Timberlake are house music, Reductive House.

by Bad Grampa July 20, 2022