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.
We can speak in this case of a reductionist project, even of a project of mechanical reductionism.
Reductionism about personal identity, that is, would inevitably result in moral bankruptcy.
To show that they are not is to show, in effect, that some form of reductionism with regard to such statements is tr ue.
Reductionism about personal identity turns the analogy between person and state upside down.
Reductionism, in this extreme view, is simply incompatible with notions like responsibility and desert.
Reductionism has to be avoided at all costs.
Here again, we see the power of reductionism in explaining emotional salience.
Recently, however, reductionism has fallen on hard times.
