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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

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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.

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.

Adjective modifier

  • biological: However you seem to be unwilling to let go of biological reductionism.

Preposition: in

  • science: Why are even scientists, involved in the supposed heinous practice, joining in the denigration of reductionism in science?
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