| 词汇 | reductionist |
| 释义 | reductionist adjective uk /rɪˈdʌk.ʃən.ɪst/ us /rɪˈdʌk.ʃən.ɪst/ formal considering or presenting something complicated in a simple way, especially a way that is too simple: 还原的 a reductionist approach还原论方法 The reductionist argument says that anything can be art so long as someone says it is. science specialized relating to the belief that complex living systems can be explained by the laws of physics and chemistry, or having this belief: This simplistic reductionist model has pathologized a lot of human distress. Scientific critics have accused him of being too reductionist. Her work has always been highly reductionist in its simple shapes and colours. You simply can't live in a world of reductionist, short-term thinking. a reductionist view of reality He claimed that contemporary science was very reductionist. Misapplication of the reductionist mentality of physicists has often led life scientists into trouble. 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 reductionist noun[ C ] uk /rɪˈdʌk.ʃən.ɪst/ us /rɪˈdʌk.ʃən.ɪst/ formal someone who likes to consider or present something complicated in a simple way, especially a way that is too simple: When considering nations, most of us are reductionists, believing that the existence of a nation involves nothing more than the existence of its citizens, living together on its territory. science specialized someone who believes that complex living systems can be explained by the laws of physics and chemistry: The reductionists have made countless desperate attempts to quantify the unmeasurable. 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 Examples of reductionistreductionist The situations of older people are often ' medicalised ' or ' economised ', and a reductionist medical or economic grid is arbitrarily placed over the discussion. Traditionally, the reductionist approach has been applied to cardiac research, collecting data from isolated building blocks of the highly integrated cardiac system. The other approach is reductionist, isolating the component structures of a deformed body in such a way that they can be idealized and modelled mathematically. What justifies a reductionist argument is the goodness of fit between the two independently established theories. The physicalist hopes to find a way to understand all personal meanings and all psychological representations in some form of reductionist account. The advertisers' attempts to combat multilingualism also seem to result in reductionist representations. That discussion will also allow us to see the significance of the distinction between reductionist and anti-reductionist versions of consequentialism. However, note that for the hardnosed reductionist these practical objections merely beg the question. We need a new clinical method that transcends dualism and transforms the current ' reductionist ' model into a genuinely integrative model of medical care. I will show that there is little reason to reject his conclusion in favor of a more reductionist account. The view that advertising texts offer is reductionist. The discussion of 'anti-histories' is stimulating but a little reductionist. We can speak in this case of a reductionist project, even of a project of mechanical reductionism. A properly ethnographic study of cetaceans would directly subvert their positivist methodology and reductionist assumptions. Clearly, one of the biggest achievements of the book is that this narrow focus is shown to be inappropriately reductionist. 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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