reductionism
nounEtymology
From reduction + -ism.
Definitions
An approach to studying complex systems or ideas by reducing them to a set of simpler…
An approach to studying complex systems or ideas by reducing them to a set of simpler components.
A philosophical position which holds that a complex system is nothing but the sum of its…
A philosophical position which holds that a complex system is nothing but the sum of its parts, and that an account of it can be reduced to accounts of individual constituents. In a reductionist framework, the phenomena that can be explained completely in terms of relations between other more fundamental phenomena are called "epiphenomena".
The neighborhood
- neighborreductionist
- neighborreductivism
- neighborholism
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for reductionism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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