Reductionism
Definition & Meaning
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Reductionism is a noun meaning An approach to studying complex systems or ideas by reducing them to a set of simpler components.
Meaning
An approach to studying complex systems or ideas by reducing them to a set of simpler components.
More Meanings
- (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".
Word Forms
- reductionisms
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include reduction, axiomatization, simplication, abbreviation, rationalization, model.
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