books.google.co.uk - Philosophers often have tried to either reduce "disagreeable" objects or concepts to (more) acceptable objects or concepts. Reduction is regarded attractive by those who subscribe to an ideal of ontological parsimony. But the topic is not just restricted to traditional metaphysics or ontology. In the...https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Reduction_Abstraction_Analysis.html?id=4ngWVJfwwy8C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareReduction - Abstraction - Analysis
