0 the practice of considering or presenting something complicated in a simple way, especially a way that is too simple:
Reductionism as a way of understanding food or drugs can lead to problems.
A climate of reductionism fostered the development of technologies that were applied to physiology and to the study of the nervous system.
However, he rejects the position that science is the sole arbiter of the real, calling it a form of ' unwarranted reductionism ' (p. 90).
The ultimate consequence of the use of these catachreses is a reductionism and simplification of social complexity.
As experience in parts of chemistry and physics has shown, scientific reductionism is not a tool that is to be applied mechanistically.
The methods and ideas include analysis (reductionism), synthesis (holism) and 'emergent ' properties.
The problem with that view is that, even if it avoids reductionism, it comes perilously close to an untenable genetic determinism.
Reductionism is the historically most common and the conceptually most straightforward way of answering "yes" to this question.
Recently, however, reductionism has fallen on hard times.
