单词 | nothing-but-ism |
释义 | nothing-but-ismn. Psychology. rare. An oversimplistic approach to the explanation of a phenomenon, which excludes complicating factors; reductionism. Cf. nothing-buttery n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > [noun] > making easy > freeing from complexity > to excess simplism1840 oversimplification1878 nothing-but-ism1935 oversimplifying1939 1935 Mind 44 91 Jung's formulation..is the antithesis of ‘nothing-but’-ism. 1980 J. H. Crook Evol. Human Consciousness i. 3 The simplicism, the ‘nothing butism’ as Julian Huxley would have said, of reducing all functional explanations of complex behaviour to calculations concerning the relative fitness of gene-bearers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1935 |
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