Full Idea
We can achieve a lot by elucidations that put a concept to use without attempting to reduce it but, in using the concept, exhibit its connexions with other concepts that are established.
Gist of Idea
We learn a concept's relations by using it, without reducing it to anything
Source
David Wiggins (Sameness and Substance Renewed [2001], Pr.3)
Book Reference
Wiggins,David: 'Sameness and Substance Renewed' [CUP 2001], p.5
A Reaction
This seems to be the best line of defence for analytic philosophy, given the much-cited observation that no one has successful reduced any concept by pure analysis.