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Definition of reductionist in English: reductionistnoun rɪˈdʌkʃ(ə)nɪstrəˈdəkʃ(ə)nəst derogatory A person who analyses and describes a complex phenomenon in terms of its simple or fundamental constituents. Example sentencesExamples - More conservatively, however, many reductionists reintroduced elements of composition into improvised music.
- Picasso was a reductionist, interested in arriving at the essential truth of the matter.
- The author makes claims for the central importance of the railway in every aspect of life without seeming a crude reductionist.
- Having sat at the table alongside the immortals, hearing their words while watching their games of footsie, he is a sort of reflexive reductionist.
- The reductionists argued for the simplicity of tragedy; their rivals argued for the magnificent expansiveness of epic.
- In life, the impulse toward a simple stripping down to some bare truth is either delusion, hubris, or the reductionist's dust.
- The question about the validity of the system is embedded in the debate between reductionists and system theorists.
- Identity theorists are reductionists; and reduction is distinct from elimination.
- He is a reductionist who holds that whatever real property one finds in the whole must be found proportionally in the parts.
- He attacks the critics of postmodernism by calling them sociological reductionists.
adjective rɪˈdʌkʃ(ə)nɪstrəˈdəkʃ(ə)nəst derogatory Analysing and describing a complex phenomenon in terms of its simple or fundamental constituents. a reductionist approach that leads to stereotyping Example sentencesExamples - As far as your opinion that a reductionist approach killed the visual arts, I would have to disagree.
- The advent of specific drugs joined with a more research-based, reductionist brand of medical diagnosis.
- The examples bear witness to the beginnings of a reductionist period for the Spanish artist, during which earlier complex works gave way to minimalism.
- The extent to which we are free, for example, may have to be revised if we accept reductionist explanations of behaviour.
- They take the reductionist position that the fundamental building blocks of any organization are individuals, not the groups within it.
- Where the author lets readers down is in her too often reductionist effort to have the frontier wars be the explanation of the 1692 witchcraft outbreak.
- He warns against reductionist analyses and emphasises that films should be judged by narrative criteria, as entertainment, and as stories.
- Reductionist science is considered bad science with politically oppressive implications.
- I do think the way the site evaluates films is a little reductionist.
- It sounds kind of reductionist to sum people up by their musical tastes and how they differ from yours.
Definition of reductionist in US English: reductionistnounrəˈdəkSH(ə)nəstrəˈdəkʃ(ə)nəst derogatory A person who analyzes and describes a complex phenomenon in terms of its simple or fundamental constituents. Example sentencesExamples - The author makes claims for the central importance of the railway in every aspect of life without seeming a crude reductionist.
- More conservatively, however, many reductionists reintroduced elements of composition into improvised music.
- The reductionists argued for the simplicity of tragedy; their rivals argued for the magnificent expansiveness of epic.
- He attacks the critics of postmodernism by calling them sociological reductionists.
- Identity theorists are reductionists; and reduction is distinct from elimination.
- Picasso was a reductionist, interested in arriving at the essential truth of the matter.
- Having sat at the table alongside the immortals, hearing their words while watching their games of footsie, he is a sort of reflexive reductionist.
- In life, the impulse toward a simple stripping down to some bare truth is either delusion, hubris, or the reductionist's dust.
- The question about the validity of the system is embedded in the debate between reductionists and system theorists.
- He is a reductionist who holds that whatever real property one finds in the whole must be found proportionally in the parts.
adjectiverəˈdəkSH(ə)nəstrəˈdəkʃ(ə)nəst derogatory Analyzing and describing a complex phenomenon in terms of its simple or fundamental constituents. a reductionist approach that leads to stereotyping Example sentencesExamples - As far as your opinion that a reductionist approach killed the visual arts, I would have to disagree.
- It sounds kind of reductionist to sum people up by their musical tastes and how they differ from yours.
- The examples bear witness to the beginnings of a reductionist period for the Spanish artist, during which earlier complex works gave way to minimalism.
- The extent to which we are free, for example, may have to be revised if we accept reductionist explanations of behaviour.
- Where the author lets readers down is in her too often reductionist effort to have the frontier wars be the explanation of the 1692 witchcraft outbreak.
- He warns against reductionist analyses and emphasises that films should be judged by narrative criteria, as entertainment, and as stories.
- The advent of specific drugs joined with a more research-based, reductionist brand of medical diagnosis.
- Reductionist science is considered bad science with politically oppressive implications.
- I do think the way the site evaluates films is a little reductionist.
- They take the reductionist position that the fundamental building blocks of any organization are individuals, not the groups within it.
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