0 the practice of considering or presenting something complicated in a simple way, especially a way that is too simple -- （尤指过度）简化
Reductionism as a way of understanding food or drugs can lead to problems. 这是一种理解食品和药物可能有害的简单办法。
He argues that music, fundamentally, is mediation - it mediates people - but that even though its power is socially constituted, that does not validate social reductionism.
There are two facets to the demonstrated inadequacy of what is here subsumed under the title of reductionism.
The appeal of reductionism has waxed and waned over the years.
From the point of view of the ease-of-predication approach, the theoretical parsimony of the predicate-argument approach offers the prospect ultimately of an elegant reductionism.
The problem of the micro-macro link, of reductionism, of the individual-social system relationship, is independent of the rational nature of the agents (see later).
In what ways can social policy help to resist the siren voices of biological reductionism?
To our psychologically minded prosecutors, we plead guilty to the charge of reductionism.
Although it is appealing to offer a neuroanatomy of empathy, the present level of neuropsychology may not support such reductionism.
