reductionism
reductionism
Definition
re·duc·tion·ism (-iz′əm)
noun
any method or theory of reducing data, processes, or statements to seeming equivalents that are less complex or developed: usually a disparaging term
re·duc′·tion·ist noun, adjective
re·duc′·tion·is′·tic adjective
reductionism
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- reject: We must reject the reductionism that gives priority to molecules over cells and cells over organisms and organisms over populations.
- call: The danger we are trying to avoid here is called reductionism.
- discuss: In 1992, John Cornwell at Cambridge UK, convened a group of well-known scientists and philosophers to discuss reductionism.
- include: We should also include experimental reductionism, the use of controlled laboratory studies to gain understanding of similar behaviors in the natural environment.
- use: A starting point might be to use the reductionism inherent in medicine as per Table 2.
- have: Grow lettuce in styrofoam, and you have reductionism.
Noun used with modifier
- class: Needless to say, it wasn't always a stance destined to make friends and influence people, and tended toward class reductionism.
- machine: The cognitive approach uses the principle of machine reductionism.
Adjective modifier
- biological: However you seem to be unwilling to let go of biological reductionism.
- scientific: To do magick will change a person; they will view the world through eyes that see beyond the crushing dullness of scientific reductionism.
- economic: They come down to the oldest charge in the book: economic reductionism.
- such: Such economic reductionism can, of course, explain neither the collapse of Yugoslavia nor the outbreak of war.
- psychological: Could there be an Abraham and Isaac episode in our era of psychological reductionism and media over-exposure?
- methodological: He agrees that what he calls methodological reductionism is necessary for science, and he has no objections to it.
Preposition: in
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