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Noun(1) a theory that all complex systems can be completely understood in terms of their components(2) the analysis of complex things into simpler constituents

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(1) This tradition, with its suspect promise of simplicity, has a tattered reputation because of its reductionism .(2) That does not require that in embracing naturalism one also embrace determinism, physicalism, and reductionism .(3) This reductionism is an ideological fantasy, rather than a theoretical position resting on solid argument.(4) Even for the casually religious, such seeming reductionism can rankle.(5) Opposing either form of reductionism would be the thesis that both species of causation exist but that neither is analysable in terms of the other.(6) But there is always something more to Cocteau's films than the simple reductionism of ordinary interpretation.(7) Her faith, however, is not a simple brand of spiritual reductionism whereupon community and congregational problems can be explained by God.(8) In contrast to reductionism , there is the view that testimony is itself a u2018basicu2019 source of warrant.(9) Ayer by now thought phenomenalism was unsuccessful in this attempt, and again reductionism would not work for the future cases.(10) Here the mind is not limited by any reductionism such as religion, caste, nationality etc.(11) The main enemies are psychologism, reductionism , idealism, and the distortion of the phenomena by philosophical systems.(12) What is the significance of empiricism or reductionism ?(13) You could say this is an attack on reductionism , or on fundamentalism.(14) This kind of reductionism is not very useful, and it is also politically paralysing.(15) Western philosophy today can he characterized by three things: reductionism , rationalism and a belief in progress.(16) The problem is called economic reductionism - seeing economic interests at all times and in every case as being the only phenomenon necessary to understand political decisions.