Associations to the word «Reductionism»
Noun
- Materialism
- Realism
- Kuhn
- Genetic
- Emergence
- Biology
- Fallacy
- Genetics
- Idealism
- Mechanics
- Neumann
- Dogma
- Hilbert
- Ism
- Ramsey
- Rosenberg
- Mach
- Rationality
- Explanation
- Metaphor
- Individuality
- Relativity
- Unity
- Prediction
- Philosophy
- Complexity
- Putnam
- Reduction
- Confirmation
- Physic
- Generalization
- Specialization
- Abduction
- Psychology
- Thesis
- Theory
- Neuroscience
- Freud
- Critique
- Approximation
- Entropy
- Paradox
- Enlightenment
- Cognition
- Consciousness
- Universal
- Theo
- Methodology
- Paradigm
- Physics
- Phenomenon
- Unification
- Linguistics
- Induction
- Fitness
- Probability
- Science
- Reject
- Philosopher
- Laws
- Genome
- Ethics
- Argument
- Distinction
- Logic
- Mechanism
- Ecology
- Locality
- Thinker
- Evolution
- Rudolf
- Pm
Adjective
Adverb
Wiktionary
REDUCTIONISM, noun. An approach to studying complex systems or ideas by reducing them to a set of simpler components.
REDUCTIONISM, noun. (philosophy) 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".
Dictionary definition
REDUCTIONISM, noun. A theory that all complex systems can be completely understood in terms of their components.
REDUCTIONISM, noun. The analysis of complex things into simpler constituents.
Wise words
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing
in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in
the hands of one who knows how to combine them.