reductionism
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- noun
- /rɪˈdʌkʃənɪzəm/
- Formal
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reduccionismo
- The theory of reductionism simplifies complex phenomena by breaking them down into their basic components.
- biological reductionism
- phenomenological reductionism
- the danger of reductionism
That that sort of sort of reductionism is boring.
- That that sort of sort of reductionism is boring.
- It is possible that this is correct, but then you have to explain just where reductionism breaks down and why, which no one has done.
- There's no observation that we have ever made that contradicts this idea of reductionism.
- And, and by the way, reductionism and space-time have been spectacularly successful assumptions of science for centuries.
- So you, you literally reductionism literally blows up in your face in physics.
- There's a dialectic going on that's very, very far to your point from radical materialism or biological reductionism.
- You want to make these the the beginnings, you know, it's reductionism, but to counterfactuals, not to particles and and and trajectories.
Examples
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Both contingency and emergence would limit the effectiveness of reductionism; therefore, they seem to undermine Wilson's model.
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In this, combined with his views on genetic reductionism, he comes a little too close.
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Is classical reductionism good for anything?
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There's something wrong with this primary focus on reductionism in science.
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Even without a commitment to materialistic reductionism, the theory would be in bad shape.
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It is possible that this is correct, but then you have to explain just where reductionism breaks down and why, which no one has done.
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Fanon warns against reductionism when he writes, "Reality, for once, requires a total understanding."
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Participants in cross-disciplinary collaborations may have different levels of experience with and appreciation for reductionism or holism.
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Scientists differ in their attitudes toward the effectiveness and suitability of reductionism versus holism in science.
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Yet, to his credit, Stanislawski cautiously avoided the lure of reductionism when it came to ultimate causation.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
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3.4
Careful study of something by breaking it into parts to understand
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Making something simpler to understand
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A way of studying something by breaking it into parts
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Splitting a math object into simpler parts to study it
A study that breaks something into parts to show how it works
To break something into clear parts to make it easier to study
A careful study of something in detail to understand it
Antonyms
How Reductionist
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Reductionism comes from reduce, which means 'bring back' or 'make smaller', plus the ending -ism, which means 'a belief or practice'. So, reductionism is the idea or practice of explaining complex things by bringing them back to their simpler parts.