reductivismn.

1946 Jrnl. Philos. 43 522 In the first place, the category of matter is neither ultimate nor pervasive... The category of ‘event’ is surely much more neutral. Nor does it involve the vicious reductivism which was the besetting sin of the older materialistic versions of naturalism.

1972 Village Voice (N.Y.) 1 June 74/3 Dylan had been moving toward Duchamp's brand of Cartesian reductivism and public withdrawal.

1990 K. E. Welch Contemp. Reception Classical Rhetoric i. 26 This kind of reductivism deprives readers of the connections between contemporary language theory and historical language theory.

2007 Cape Times (Nexis) 11 July 8 One objects to Aeschliman thinking that all whites necessarily want to perpetuate apartheid as one objects to reductivism in any argument.

1967 Listener 17 Aug. 220 Bernard Cohen's White Plant dates from the period when his earlier ‘linguistic’ style had degenerated into a hothouse aestheticism; the rather self-conscious reductivism of his recent exhibition was far less cloying.

1970 Britannica Bk. of Year 1969 798/3 Rejective art, a simplified and often depersonalized art (as painting or sculpture) based on the principle of the artist rejecting the various options open to him; called also reductive art, reductivism, rejectivism.

2003 Archit. Rev. Jan. 56 The result is a convincing and intelligent reinterpretation of Venetian types that avoids the ready trap of whimsical pastiche. Nor does it lapse into fashionably arid reductivism.