reductionism
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reductionism
noun reductionisms
- An approach to studying complex systems or ideas by reducing them to a set of simpler components.
- A philosophical position which holds that a complex system is nothing but the sum of its parts, and that an account of it can be reduced to accounts of individual constituents. In a reductionist framework, the phenomena that can be explained completely in terms of relations between other more fundamental phenomena are called "epiphenomena".
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noun approach of studying complex systems
| Français | réductionnisme |
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noun (philosophy) theory holding that complex systems can be reduced to simpler components
| 日本語 | 還元主義 |
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| 中文 | 還原論 /还原论 huányuánlùn, 化約論 /化约论 huàyuēlùn |
| Français | réductionnisme |
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@misc{reductionism_2026,
title = {reductionism},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/reductionism},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
