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/ɹɪdˈʌkʃənˌɪzəm/
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NOUN
- a theory that all complex systems can be completely understood in terms of their components
- the analysis of complex things into simpler constituents
How To Use reductionism In A Sentence
- Clements was an influential writer who developed a philosophy of ecology that differed fundamentally from the reductionism of Warming and Cowles.
- The idea of television against reductionism recalls the adage about fighting for peace, and the equivalent activity for virginity.
- It was noted some time ago, by Thomas Nagel (1979), that the denial of radical emergentism coupled with nonreductionism seems to entail panpsychism.
- The minute problem of people avariciously going for reductionism even when it is the wrong choice resolves itself by the competition on "the market of ideas". This is Getting Boring: General Relativity Passes Yet another Big Test! | Universe Today
- Synthesis and holism is much more scientifically subtle than analysis and reductionism.
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- In contrast to reductionism, there is the view that testimony is itself a ‘basic’ source of warrant.
- Ayer by now thought phenomenalism was unsuccessful in this attempt, and again reductionism would not work for the future cases.
- Even for the casually religious, such seeming reductionism can rankle.
- That does not require that in embracing naturalism one also embrace determinism, physicalism, and reductionism.