0 considering or presenting something complicated in a simple way, especially a way that is too simple: --
He claimed that contemporary science was very reductionist.
a reductionist approach
Clearly, one of the biggest achievements of the book is that this narrow focus is shown to be inappropriately reductionist.
A properly ethnographic study of cetaceans would directly subvert their positivist methodology and reductionist assumptions.
We can speak in this case of a reductionist project, even of a project of mechanical reductionism.
The discussion of 'anti-histories' is stimulating but a little reductionist.
The view that advertising texts offer is reductionist.
I will show that there is little reason to reject his conclusion in favor of a more reductionist account.
We need a new clinical method that transcends dualism and transforms the current ' reductionist ' model into a genuinely integrative model of medical care.
However, note that for the hardnosed reductionist these practical objections merely beg the question.