单词 | reductionism |
释义 | reductionism From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishreductionismre‧duc‧tion‧is‧m /rɪˈdʌkʃənɪzəm/ noun [uncountable] formalwhen someone tries to explain complicated ideas or systems in very simple terms – often used to show disapproval —reductionist adjectiveExamples from the Corpusreductionism• The winning side, however, opted for a reductionism that located truth in that which could be measured.• Mightn't it merely give rise to a new, psychologistic, feminist reductionism?• For me, that's where the cold, intolerant reductionism of Richard Dawkins and Lewis Wolpert becomes politically lethal.• Clements was an influential writer who developed a philosophy of ecology that differed fundamentally from the reductionism of Warming and Cowles.• In rejecting the reductionism of rationalism, the counterculture was so deeply anti-intellectual that it forfeited access to its own history.• What was the solution to the reductionism of liberal-rationalist thought? |
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