reductionism

noun

Meaning

An approach to studying complex systems or ideas by reducing them to a set of simpler components.
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. In a reductionist framework, the phenomena that can be explained completely in terms of relations between other more fundamental phenomena, are called "epiphenomena".

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reduction(English)axiomatization(English)scientific model(English)simplication(English)abbreviation(English)rationalization(English)model(English)axiomatisation(English)holism(English)physicalism(English)reductionist(English)reducible(English)

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