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单词 reductionism
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reductionism
noun[U]
uk
/rɪˈdʌk.ʃən.ɪ.zəm/us
/rɪˈdʌk.ʃən.ɪ.zəm/
formal
thepracticeofconsideringorpresentingsomethingcomplicatedin asimpleway,especiallya way that is toosimple:
（尤指过度）简化
Reductionism as a way ofunderstandingfoodordrugscanleadtoproblems.这是一种理解食品和药物可能有害的简单办法。
Reductionism onlyworksuntil you get to thetrickybits.
Synonym
reductivism
sciencespecialized
thebeliefthatcomplexlivingsystemscan beexplainedby thelawsofphysicsandchemistry:
It isinterestingtoseehimexposingthefallacyofscientificreductionism - theideathat everything must beexplainedintermsofexperimentalscience.
More examples
  • Reductionismattemptsto puthumanbeingsand theuniquenessofhumanexperienceinto abox.
  • Reductionism aboutpersonalidentityturnstheanalogybetweenpersonandstateupsidedown.
  • Scientific reductionismdeservesmuchcreditforcountlesswondersfromantibioticstospacecraft.
  • What are theimplicationsof a model-basedapproachtosciencefor thedebateover reductionism?
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Elaborating, specifying and simplifying
  • abstract
  • anti-reductionism
  • anti-reductionist
  • broad brush
  • broaden
  • enlarge
  • enlarge on/uponsomething
  • expand
  • expand onsomething
  • expansively
  • over-elaboration
  • overgeneralization
  • overgeneralize
  • oversimplification
  • oversimplify
  • specificity
  • specify
  • split hairsidiom
  • standardization
  • standardize
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reductionist
(Definition ofreductionismfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
reductionism
noun[U]
formal
uk
/rɪˈdʌk.ʃən.ɪ.zəm/us
/rɪˈdʌk.ʃən.ɪ.zəm/
(alsoreductivism)
thepracticeofconsideringorpresentingsomethingcomplicatedin asimpleway,especiallya way that is toosimple
（尤指过度）简化
Reductionism as a way ofunderstandingfoodordrugscanleadtoproblems.这是一种理解食品和药物可能有害的简单办法。

Examplesofreductionism

reductionism
A climate ofreductionismfostered the development of technologies that were applied to physiology and to the study of the nervous system.
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However, he rejects the position that science is the sole arbiter of the real, calling it a form of ' unwarrantedreductionism' (p. 90).
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The ultimate consequence of the use of these catachreses is areductionismand simplification of social complexity.
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As experience in parts of chemistry and physics has shown, scientificreductionismis not a tool that is to be applied mechanistically.
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The methods and ideas include analysis (reductionism), synthesis (holism) and 'emergent ' properties.
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The problem with that view is that, even if it avoidsreductionism, it comes perilously close to an untenable genetic determinism.
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Reductionismis the historically most common and the conceptually most straightforward way of answering "yes" to this question.
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Recently, however,reductionismhas fallen on hard times.
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Here again, we see the power ofreductionismin explaining emotional salience.
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Reductionismhas to be avoided at all costs.
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Reductionism, in this extreme view, is simply incompatible with notions like responsibility and desert.
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Reductionismabout personal identity turns the analogy between person and state upside down.
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To show that they are not is to show, in effect, that some form ofreductionismwith regard to such statements is tr ue.
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Reductionismabout personal identity, that is, would inevitably result in moral bankruptcy.
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We can speak in this case of a reductionist project, even of a project of mechanicalreductionism.
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