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1. Reductionism: Reductionism, in a philosophical context, is a theory that asserts that the nature of complex things is reduced to the nature of sums of simpler or more fundamental things. This can be said of objects, phenomena, explanations, theories, and meanings ... [100%] 2023-02-03
2. Reductionism: For much of the 20th century, the dominant approach in science has been reductionism – "the idea that it is possible, at least in principle, to explain a phenomenon in terms of less complicated constituents". This principle has ancient roots - Francis ... [100%] 2023-01-28
3. Reductionism: Reductionism, in a philosophical context, is a theory that asserts that the nature of complex things is reduced to the nature of sums of simpler or more fundamental things. This can be said of objects, phenomena, explanations, theories, and meanings ... [100%] 2023-02-04
4. Reductionism: Reductionism is the view that everything can be explained in term of naturalistic cause and effect. Methodological reductionism refers to procedure when problem (the object of explaining something) is split up into separate parts or aspects and thus reduced to ... [100%] 2023-02-04 [Philosophy of Science] [Methodology of Science]...
5. Reductionism: Reductionism is any of several related philosophical ideas regarding the associations between phenomena which can be described in terms of other simpler or more fundamental phenomena. It is also described as an intellectual and philosophical position that interprets a complex ... (Philosophy) [100%] 2023-10-12 [Reductionism] [Metatheory of science]...
6. Reductionism: Reductionism is the philosophical position that a complex phenomenon can be described ultimately by the component pieces that make up that phenomenon. Reductionism can be applied to almost anything, whether it is a physical system, a process, a thought, or ... [100%] 2023-12-27 [Philosophy] [Philosophy of science]...
7. Reductionism in Biology: Reductionism encompasses a set of ontological, epistemological, and methodological claims about the relations between different scientific domains. The basic question of reduction is whether the properties, concepts, explanations, or methods from one scientific domain (typically at higher levels of organization ... (Philosophy) [57%] 2021-12-24
8. Greedy reductionism: Greedy reductionism, identified by Daniel Dennett, in his 1995 book Darwin's Dangerous Idea, is a kind of erroneous reductionism. Whereas "good" reductionism means explaining a thing in terms of what it reduces to (for example, its parts and their ... (Philosophy) [70%] 2024-01-05 [Informal fallacies] [Metatheory of science]...
9. Class reductionism: Class reductionism is an epithet used to describe social theories that emphasize the role of the exploitation of labour along the lines of social classes in creating societal inequality, over all other social divisions and forms of oppression, such as ... (Social) [70%] 2023-05-30 [Political slurs] [Political science terminology]...
10. Genetic reductionism: Genetic reductionism is the belief that understanding genes is sufficient to understand all aspects of human behavior. It is a specific form of reductionism and of biological determinism, based on a perspective which defines genes as distinct units of information ... (Philosophy) [70%] 2022-11-30 [Reductionism]