REDUCTIONISM


Meaning of REDUCTIONISM in English

noun

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Clements was an influential writer who developed a philosophy of ecology that differed fundamentally from the reductionism of Warming and Cowles.

For me, that's where the cold, intolerant reductionism of Richard Dawkins and Lewis Wolpert becomes politically lethal.

In rejecting the reductionism of rationalism, the counterculture was so deeply anti-intellectual that it forfeited access to its own history.

Mightn't it merely give rise to a new, psychologistic, feminist reductionism ?

The idea of television against reductionism recalls the adage about fighting for peace, and the equivalent activity for virginity.

The winning side, however, opted for a reductionism that located truth in that which could be measured.

What was the solution to the reductionism of liberal-rationalist thought?

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