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
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.