| 词汇 | reductionism |
| 释义 | reductionism noun[ U ] uk /rɪˈdʌk.ʃən.ɪ.zəm/ us /rɪˈdʌk.ʃən.ɪ.zəm/ formal the practice of considering or presenting something complicated in a simple way, especially a way that is too simple: （尤指过度）简化 Reductionism as a way of understanding food or drugs can lead to problems.这是一种理解食品和药物可能有害的简单办法。 Reductionism only works until you get to the tricky bits. Synonym reductivism science specialized the belief that complex living systems can be explained by the laws of physics and chemistry: It is interesting to see him exposing the fallacy of scientific reductionism - the idea that everything must be explained in terms of experimental science . Reductionism attempts to put human beings and the uniqueness of human experience into a box. Reductionism about personal identity turns the analogy between person and state upside down. Scientific reductionism deserves much credit for countless wonders from antibiotics to spacecraft. What are the implications of a model-based approach to science for the debate over reductionism? Elaborating, specifying and simplifying abstract anti-reductionism anti-reductionist broad brush broaden enlarge enlarge on/upon something expand expand on something expansively over-elaboration overgeneralization overgeneralize oversimplification oversimplify spec specification specificity specify split hairsidiom You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Philosophy Related wordreductionist Examples of reductionismreductionism A climate of reductionism fostered the development of technologies that were applied to physiology and to the study of the nervous system. However, he rejects the position that science is the sole arbiter of the real, calling it a form of ' unwarranted reductionism ' (p. 90). The ultimate consequence of the use of these catachreses is a reductionism and simplification of social complexity. As experience in parts of chemistry and physics has shown, scientific reductionism is not a tool that is to be applied mechanistically. The methods and ideas include analysis (reductionism), synthesis (holism) and 'emergent ' properties. The problem with that view is that, even if it avoids reductionism, it comes perilously close to an untenable genetic determinism. Reductionism is the historically most common and the conceptually most straightforward way of answering "yes" to this question. Recently, however, reductionism has fallen on hard times. Here again, we see the power of reductionism in explaining emotional salience. Reductionism has to be avoided at all costs. Reductionism, in this extreme view, is simply incompatible with notions like responsibility and desert. Reductionism about personal identity turns the analogy between person and state upside down. To show that they are not is to show, in effect, that some form of reductionism with regard to such statements is tr ue. Reductionism about personal identity, that is, would inevitably result in moral bankruptcy. We can speak in this case of a reductionist project, even of a project of mechanical reductionism. See all examples of reductionism These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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