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Reductionism

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Noun

1. reductionism

a theory that all complex systems can be completely understood in terms of their components

2. reductionism

the analysis of complex things into simpler constituents

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Reductionism

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noun
1. 
the analysis of complex things, data, etc, into less complex constituents
2. often derogatory
any theory or method that holds that a complex idea, system, etc, can be completely understood in terms of its simpler parts or components

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Reductionism

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noun
any method or theory of reducing data, processes, or statements to seeming equivalents that are less complex or developed
usually a disparaging term

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Reductionism

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n.
An attempt or tendency to explain a complex set of facts, entities, phenomena, or structures by another, simpler set: "Science requires some degree of reductionism, some picking apart and focusing on one or two variables at a time" (Natalie Angier).

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