pseudoreduction

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English

Etymology

From pseudo- +‎ reduction.

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Noun

pseudoreduction (countable and uncountable, plural pseudoreductions)

  1. Something that resembles a reduction but is not a true reduction.
    • 1999, Scott Soames, Understanding Truth, page 109:
      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,
  2. (biology) The period of tetrad formation in nuclear division.