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词汇 reductionist
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Definition of reductionist in English:

reductionist

noun rɪˈdʌkʃ(ə)nɪstrəˈdəkʃ(ə)nəst
derogatory
  • A person who analyses and describes a complex phenomenon in terms of its simple or fundamental constituents.

    a crude reductionist
    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.

Derivatives

  • reductionistic

  • adjective rɪˌdʌkʃ(ə)ˈnɪstɪkrəˌdəkʃəˈnɪstɪk
    derogatory
    • He has written several books decrying the tendency of scientists to be overly reductionistic in their analyses.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He finds much modern science to be reductionistic.
      • My idea for this blog is to call out reductionistic thinking - the opportunity to think in simple ways is so strong, that without the proper support I will be stuck there.
      • To ignore the emotional realities of parenthood is misleadingly reductionistic.
      • My focus is very reductionistic - I will only follow a small number of case studies.
      • One of the great aspects of this interesting book is the constant effort to avoid a reductionistic conception of grief.
      • A requirement of a science is a reductionistic language with which to define constructs.
      • Each author also argues against the traditional reductionistic view of genetic determinism.
      • Collage was my way of stepping outside the reductionistic process of modernism.
      • She sees this oedipal view of creativity as unnecessarily reductionistic.

Rhymes

obstructionist

Definition of reductionist in US English:

reductionist

nounrəˈdəkSH(ə)nəstrəˈdəkʃ(ə)nəst
derogatory
  • A person who analyzes and describes a complex phenomenon in terms of its simple or fundamental constituents.

    a crude reductionist
    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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