0 the practice of considering or presenting something complicated in a simple way, especially a way that is too simple: --
He was a modernist architect known for his reductivism, who stripped all decoration from his buildings.
The reductivism of these models is inherently problematic for social decision making.
Worse, this reductivism obtains that identifying those with enhancements requires defining who is normal and, in so doing, who is disabled.
Many epistemologists reject linguistic reductivism in favor of a dual view of belief.
The failure of scientific reductivism arises because science is discovering that nature, like any living system, is in relationships.
It is the very essence of reductivism to treat human beings as things.