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reductionism::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | theory |
reductionism::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | analysis, analytic thinking |
Examples of reductionism
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In the meantime, reductionism in physics has never been more firmly established.
From the scienceblogs.com
Ray noted that some neuroscientists are uneasy about this rampant reductionism.
From the markvernon.com
It seems that only rank libertarians are capable of such obscene reductionism.
From the economist.com
It pretty much blows the genetic reductionism I grew up with out of the water.
From the scienceblogs.com
Alfred North Whitehead set his metaphysical thinking in opposition to reductionism.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Debates in these areas of philosophy of biology turn on how one views reductionism.
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Unfortunately, those arguments rely on a popular form of false reductionism.
From the newscientist.com
You complaing about reductionism but you've reduced humanity to a DNA code.
From the evangelicaloutpost.com
Even for the casually religious, such seeming reductionism can rankle.
From the time.com
- A theory that all complex systems can be completely understood in terms of their components
- The analysis of complex things into simpler constituents
- (reductionist) of or relating to the theory of reductionism; "reductionist arguments"
- Reductionism can either mean (a) an approach to understanding the nature of complex things by reducing them to the interactions of their parts, or to simpler or more fundamental things or (b) a philosophical position that a complex system is nothing but the sum of its parts, and that an account ...
- An approach to studying complex systems or ideas by reducing them to a set of simpler components; any of several theories holding that complex systems or ideas can always be reduced to a set of simpler components
- (Reductionist) Someone who reduces complex social issues down to their simplest observable components and addresses only those. ...
- (Reductionist) This is the process where a complex problem is reduced to its component parts and their interactions. Thus medicine has reduced the human being to the interactions of their component atoms and therefore chemicals. ...
- (Reductionistic) Reducing to parts-a way of explaining based on understanding the parts that make up a whole. [2]
- The approach that explains all of reality in terms of one type of existence. Ordinarily reductionism is the position that all of reality can be explained by using only physical, sub-atomic, entities. ...
