Associations to the word «Reductionism»
Noun
- Relation
- Mind
- Experience
- Doctrine
- Observation
- Conservation
- Discussion
- Brain
- Scientist
- Opposition
- Intelligence
- Object
- Attempt
- Awareness
- Von
- Identification
- Function
- Term
- Studying
- Equation
- Circle
- Idea
- Critic
- Limit
- Con
- Structure
- Reed
- Statement
- Karl
- Ex
- Question
- Adaptation
- Kind
- Analysis
- Human
- Component
- Part
- Knowledge
- Opponent
- Value
- Sense
- Field
- Tradition
- Form
- Study
- Law
- Process
- Foundation
- Relationship
- Account
- Carl
- Essay
- See
- Challenge
- Origin
- Culture
- Medicine
- Anderson
- Example
- Ing
- Property
- Research
- System
- Element
- Conclusion
- Failure
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
We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words
were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only,
and not for things themselves.