0 considering or presenting something complicated in a simple way, especially a way that is too simple:
a reductionist approach
He claimed that contemporary science was very reductionist.
Her work has always been highly reductionist in its simple shapes and colours.
You simply can't live in a world of reductionist, short-term thinking.
The situations of older people are often ' medicalised ' or ' economised ', and a reductionist medical or economic grid is arbitrarily placed over the discussion.
Traditionally, the reductionist approach has been applied to cardiac research, collecting data from isolated building blocks of the highly integrated cardiac system.
The other approach is reductionist, isolating the component structures of a deformed body in such a way that they can be idealized and modelled mathematically.
What justifies a reductionist argument is the goodness of fit between the two independently established theories.
The physicalist hopes to find a way to understand all personal meanings and all psychological representations in some form of reductionist account.
