0 a style in art, design, and theatre that uses the smallest range of materials and colours possible, and only very simple shapes or forms: --
You can say he's a sort of advanced minimalist, or in an elite field of minimalism, perhaps!
Similarly, under minimalism, the study of variation is valuable only in so far as it promotes an understanding of the larger principles.
Which is why minimalism and its offshoots have been so successful.
But of course the whole thrust of minimalism is a reaction to complexity, and it's basically a healthy one.
Minimalism represents sentences as symbolic structures resulting from a formal process of syntactic derivation.
The final challenge in defending disjunctive minimalism is showing that it can fit into a sufficiently coherent general ethical theory.
Above all, though, these writers are united in a disdain for metropolitan postmodernism, suburban minimalism, campus selfreflexivity.
In other words, disjunctive minimalism fits better with the way we talk about virtues in everyday life.