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" If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear thought process that counts on cleverness."
Joel Salatin

Meaning of "reductionist" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF REDUCTIONIST

rɪˈdʌkʃənɪst


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF REDUCTIONIST

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Reductionist is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES REDUCTIONIST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Reductionism

Reductionism is a philosophical position which holds that a complex system is nothing but the sum of its parts, and that an account of it can be reduced to accounts of individual constituents. This can be said of objects, phenomena, explanation, theories, and meanings. Reductionism strongly reflects a certain perspective on causality. In a reductionist framework, the phenomena that can be explained completely in terms of relations between other more fundamental phenomena, are called epiphenomena. Often there is an implication that the epiphenomenon exerts no causal agency on the fundamental phenomena that explain it. Reductionism does not preclude the existence of what might be called emergent phenomena, but it does imply the ability to understand those phenomena completely in terms of the processes from which they are composed. This reductionist understanding is very different from that usually implied by the term 'emergence', which typically intends that what emerges is more than the sum of the processes from which it emerges. Religious reductionism generally attempts to explain religion by boiling it down to certain nonreligious causes.

Definition of reductionist in the English dictionary

The first definition of reductionist in the dictionary is of or relating to the analysis of complex things into less complex constituents. Other definition of reductionist is holding that a complex idea, system, etc, can be completely understood in terms of its simpler parts or components. Reductionist is also of or relating to the view that entities of a given kind are collections or combinations of entities of a simpler or more basic kind or that expressions denoting such entities are definable in terms of expressions denoting the more basic entities.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH REDUCTIONIST

abstractionist · actionist · constructionist · defectionist · destructionist · factionist · fluxionist · insurrectionist · interactionist · metafictionist · obstructionist · perfectionist · projectionist · protectionist · reactionist · rejectionist · restrictionist · resurrectionist · selectionist · vivisectionist

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE REDUCTIONIST

reducer · reducibility · reducible · reducibleness · reducibly · reducing agent · reducing glass · reductant · reductase · reductio ad absurdum · reduction · reduction division · reduction formula · reductional · reductionism · reductionistic · reductive · reductively · reductiveness · reductor

WORDS THAT END LIKE REDUCTIONIST

accordionist · agonist · antagonist · cartoonist · communist · dental receptionist · educationist · evolutionist · exhibitionist · expressionist · fashionist · illusionist · impressionist · nutritionist · precisionist · protagonist · receptionist · revolutionist · saxophonist · trade unionist · Zionist

Synonyms and antonyms of reductionist in the English dictionary of synonyms

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还原
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reduccionista
570 millions of speakers
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reductionist
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न्यूनीकारक
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اختزالية
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редукционистская
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reducionista
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reductionist
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réductionniste
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Pengurangan
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reduktionistischen
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還元主義者
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환원
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Reductionist
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giản lược
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reductionist
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कपात करणारा
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indirgemeci
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riduzionista
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redukcjonistyczna
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редукционистская
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reducționistă
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αναγωγιστική
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reduksionistiese
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reduktionistiska
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reduksjonistisk
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4 QUOTES WITH «REDUCTIONIST»

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Russell Banks
One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.
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Jon Krakauer
Short form media is reductionist by nature.
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Joel Salatin
You know, in our culture today, our Western, reductionist, Roman, linear, fragmented... culture, we don't ask how to make a pig happy. We ask how to grow it faster, fatter, bigger, cheaper, and that's not a noble goal.
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Joel Salatin
If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear thought process that counts on cleverness.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «REDUCTIONIST»

Discover the use of reductionist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to reductionist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist
This engaging book -- part scientific overview, part memoir, part futurist speculation -- describes Koch's search for an empirical explanation for consciousness.
Christof Koch, 2012
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Beyond Reduction : Philosophy of Mind and Post-Reductionist ...
In this book, Steven Horst argues that this whole conversation is based on assumptions left over from an outdated philosophy of science.
Steven Horst Department of Philosophy Wesleyan University, 2007
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Mind and its Place in the World: Non-Reductionist Approaches ...
By presenting a wide spectrum of non-reductive theories, the volume endeavours to overcome the dichotomy between dualism and monism that keeps plaguing the debate in favour of new and more differentiated positions.
Alexander Batthyány, Avshalom Elitzur, 2006
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Central Issues in Criminal Theory
The reductionist approach sees punishment as an instrument of social control designed to reduce antisocial activity, typically through isolation and deterrence, less typically through rehabilitation and education. The retributivist approach sees ...
William Wilson, 2002
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Values and Objectivity in Science: The Current Controversy ...
vestigation conducted under strategies that can assess socioeconomic causal factors. Shiva on "Reductionist Science" Shiva refers to science conducted exclusively under (what I call) materialist strategies as "reductionist science" ( Shiva 1988 ...
Hugh Lacey, 2005
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Trust: The Evolutionary Game of Mind and Society
Limitations. of. the. Reductionist. Approach. As shown above, the ultimate source of trust has been sought in surrounding people's trustworthiness in previous approaches to explaining trust. That is, in previous trust research, willingness “to  ...
Toshio Yamagishi, 2011
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Re-engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings: Piecewise ...
Reductionist Research Strategies and Their Biases If reductionist problem- solving heuristics have a generic bias, it is to ignore, oversimplify, or otherwise underestimate the importance of the context of the system under study. A number of ...
William C. Wimsatt, 2007
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Systemic Intervention: Philosophy, Methodology, and Practice
For example, a reductionist approach to physiology may view a human being as a simple collection of organs; a reductionist approach to the function of a particular organ (e.g., a kidney) may decompose it into a set of bio-chemical reactions; ...
Gerald Midgley, 2000
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Evolution and Human Behavior: Darwinian Perspectives on ...
12.5.1 Reductionist*! and determinism In some circles, particularly where political correct thought control is in operation, the word 'reductionism' has a strong pejorative tone. It carries the implication that one is doing damage to a complex topic ...
John Cartwright, 2000
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Mind in a Physical World: An Essay on the Mind-body Problem ...
Expressions like "reduction," "reductionism," "reductionist theory," and " reductionist explanation" have become pejoratives not only in philosophy, on both sides of the Atlantic, but also in the general intellectual culture of today. They have ...
Jaegwon Kim, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «REDUCTIONIST»

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David Tracy's Plea for Avoiding Reductionism when Interpreting …
These conflicting reductionist procedures are temptations that in a hundred forms beset every interpreter of religion. Hiding within all of them are some secret ... «Patheos, Jul 15»
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Of Reductionist Hashtags That Mean Nothing
QUEEN'S ROAD: Sandbox Collective and The Humming Tree have collaborated to create their latest play, Keep Calm and # ashtag. The play is a unique ... «The New Indian Express, Jul 15»
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Susanna Reid describes 'frustration' at 'reductionist' critics who label …
Susanna Reid has responded to the “reductionist” critics for focusing on her appearance and labeling her a "flirt" during interviews with the Prime Minister and ... «The Independent, Jun 15»
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Susanna Reid on being called a flirt: "It's frustrating - I'm a …
The presenter also spoke about the response to her interview with David Cameron, saying it was "a little bit reductionist" for people to accuse her of flirting with ... «Digital Spy UK, Jun 15»
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The Cure for Brain Diseases Is in Your Gut
Medical research continues to operate with a reductionist mentality. The human body is looked upon as simply a compilation of various parts and systems, and ... «Daily Beast, Apr 15»
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Another misguided reductionist plan to reduce rates of suicide & self …
The Government's reported, the NT Suicide Prevention Strategic Action Plan 2015-2018, is more cheap hogwash, minimalist reductionist crap that will fail to ... «The Stringer, Apr 15»
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Vagina Monologues playwright: 'It never said a woman is someone …
The playwright Eve Ensler has dismissed claims made by a university theatre group that her famed play the Vagina Monologues is “inherently reductionist and ... «The Guardian, Jan 15»
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Creating Constructive Futures in Business and Beyond
It is a mechanistic worldview based on reductionist logic that fragments reality into abstract definitions, silos and objects to be quantified, measured, controlled ... «Triple Pundit, Oct 14»
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'Look Up' if you must, but the viral video is cloying, reductionist rubbish
It is 300 seconds of cloying, reductionist rubbish. But because it was tweeted by a couple of celebrities and is about as nuanced as a Jeremy Kyle op-ed, it will ... «The Independent, May 14»
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Reductionist thinking and GMOs
While the article GMOs, Silver Bullets and the Trap of Reductionist Thinking has garnered some praise, I was hoping for more here and was left unimpressed. «Biofortified Blog, Mar 14»
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