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REDUCTIONISM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The analysis of complex things into simpler constituents
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("reductionism" is a kind of...):
analysis; analytic thinking (the abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A theory that all complex systems can be completely understood in terms of their components
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("reductionism" is a kind of...):
theory (a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena)
