| 单词 | reductionist |
| 释义 | reductionist (once / 256942 pages) adj If someone believes that you can break complex theories into simple, smaller parts, you can call that person a reductionist. A reductionist might explain religion, for example, as simply an attempt to explain why the world exists. When you describe someone as a reductionist, you are explaining that person's philosophical stance on something — it might be science, human behavior, history, or religion. The preference for simplifying, especially when it involves breaking complicated ideas into smaller, less complicated ideas, is reductionist. This philosophical idea has been around since the 1940's, and the word itself stems from the Latin reducere, "bring back." 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 EXAMPLESWhile most of us know Jacobson for his “Trees of Seattle” book, that’s a reductionist view of this omnivore of a plant professional. Seattle Times(Oct 05, 2016) In the reductionist “just win baby” world of sports, he had made all the scorched earth that had come before worth it. Golf Digest(Oct 03, 2016) Most efforts have strived to establish reductionist approaches that can be exploited to elucidate cellular and molecular mechanisms. Nature(Jul 05, 2016) adj of or relating to the theory of reductionism reductionist arguments |
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