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    Reductionism

    Reductionism is any of several related philosophical ideas regarding the associations between phenomena which can be described in terms of other simpler or more fundamental phenomena. It is also described as an intellectual and philosophical position that interprets a complex system as the sum of its parts. Wikipedia

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  2. en.wikipedia.org

    Reductionism is any of several related philosophical ideas regarding the associations between phenomena which can be described in terms of simpler or more fundamental phenomena. [1] ... recursively enumerable axiomatic system powerful enough to describe the arithmetic of the natural numbers, there are (model-theoretically) ...
  3. simplypsychology.org

    Sep 28, 2023Reductionism in psychology refers to understanding complex behaviors and mental processes by breaking them down into simpler components or underlying factors, often focusing on biological or physiological mechanisms. It's the belief that complex phenomena can be explained by examining simpler, foundational elements or causes.
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  5. verywellmind.com

    Nov 6, 2023The reductionist approach to science is frequently contrasted with the holistic approach, which approaches things as a whole rather than focusing on individual parts. The holistic approach does not discount the importance of each individual component but instead suggests that understanding the whole requires looking at how these parts work on ...
  6. britannica.com

    reductionism, in philosophy, a view that asserts that entities of a given kind are identical to, or are collections or combinations of, entities of another (often simpler or more basic) kind or that expressions denoting such entities are definable in terms of expressions denoting other entities. Thus, the ideas that physical bodies are collections of atoms or that a given mental state (e.g ...
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  7. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

    In the first of a two part series, Ahn and colleagues discuss the reductionist approach pervading medicine and explain how a systems approach (as advocated by systems biology) may complement reductionism. ... and experiments can provide data needed for model creation or can confirm or refute model findings. With this integrative approach, it ...
  8. plato.stanford.edu

    Reductionism encompasses a set of ontological, epistemological, and methodological claims about the relations between different scientific domains. ... (Morange 2020), and revolved around specific accounts of reduction in science, such as Nagel's (1961) model. A less central concern has been whether evolutionary biology and ecology are ...
  9. neurolaunch.com

    Sep 15, 2024Reductionism in psychology comes in various flavors, each with its own unique tang. Let's sample a few, shall we? Biological reductionism is the neuroscience nerd of the bunch. It's all about explaining psychological phenomena in terms of brain structure and function. ... It's like creating a 3D model of the mind, with each perspective ...
  10. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

    The reductionist is, at least in a common reading, a philosopher who tries to accommodate the phenomena in question into a natural framework which is mainly investigated by the natural sciences. In contrast to that, the anti-reductionist is suspicious about this unification and rejects this as a vicious simplification that has unbearable costs ...
  11. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    https://iep.utm.edu › red-ism

    Reductionism. Reductionists are those who take one theory or phenomenon to be reducible to some other theory or phenomenon. For example, a reductionist regarding mathematics might take any given mathematical theory to be reducible to logic or set theory. ... Although this model is clearly intended as a correction to Nagel's model, it shares ...
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