A method is a function that is a member of an object. A property is a value or set of values (in the form of an array or object) that is a member of an object. JavaScript supports four kinds of objects: Intrinsic objects, such as Array and String. Objects you create. Host objects, such as window and document.
Definition of reductive for English Language Learners. : dealing with or describing something complicated in a simple or too simple way.
An advocate for gene-centrism recently wrote that the concept is a reductive mechanism for the understanding of evolution. The first part of that statement is correct; it is reductive, and is therefore lacking those qualities that are necessary for properly understanding a âbig-pictureâ process such as evolution.he problem with this is that gene numbers are not evolution, just as a map is not a landscape, and the price of sugar is not sugar. The spread of genes in a population is just one outcome of natural selection.