I think my so called brain has been conflating reducing with transing – and the other way around.. Transing a step, making it transferable, changing it into a transferable element, means no reduction by default. (..am not being anti-reductionist by sort of ideology of some kind.. Think/hope/intend/ not.. just that using reduction is not, or should not be sort of default.. Perhaps it was, for a while a default in my mind..?)