| 单词 | reductionism |
| 释义 | reductionism (once / 166470 pages) n Reductionism is the act of oversimplifying an issue, breaking it down into small parts that don't reflect how complex it actually is. Political scientists might accuse journalists of reductionism when they briefly sum up a complicated topic. You might come across the term reductionism in a philosophy class — in this context, any scientific theory, object, or meaning can be reduced to its individual parts. If you understand these smaller components, you will understand the larger concept. A more derogatory way to use the word is to accuse someone of trying to make something too simple through reductionism. Someone who tends to do this is known as a reductionist. WORD FAMILYreductionism: reductionist+/irreducible: irreducibly/reduce: reduced, reducer, reduces, reducible, reducing, reduction, reductive/reduced: unreduced/reducer: reducers/reducible: irreducible/reduction: reductionism, reductions/reductive: reductively, reductivism USAGE EXAMPLESThat makes us unprepared to deal with complex systems like biology, which defies that kind of reductionism. New York Times(May 06, 2016) "What I came to realise is that it's the reductionism which has caused much of the problem," said Yusuf. BBC(Jun 13, 2016) Such component focus is nutritional reductionism: the tendency to look at foods as merely collections of parts is a frankly dangerous practice. US News(May 27, 2016) 1n a theory that all complex systems can be completely understood in terms of their components Hyper theory a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena 2n the analysis of complex things into simpler constituents Hyper analysis, analytic thinking the abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations |
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