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reductivism

noun

Meaning

  1. Extreme simplification; reduction to a minimum; use of the fewest essentials
  2. The view that mental states can be reduced to physical phenomena.
  3. A minimalist movement in abstract painting and sculpture from the 1950s onwards.
  4. A minimalist school of music with similar aims.

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