Philosophy
- Eidetic reduction, a technique in the study of essences in phenomenology whose goal is to identify the basic components of phenomena
- Intertheoretic reduction, in philosophy of science, one theory makes predictions that perfectly or almost perfectly match the predictions of a second theory
- Reduction (philosophy), the process by which one object, property, concept, theory, etc., is shown to be entirely dispensable in favor of another
- Reductionism, a range of philosophical systems
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