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reˈductionist, n. and a.
[f. reduction + -ist.]
a. One who favours reduction (in the number of licensed houses).
1895N.B. Daily Mail 5 Oct. 2/1 Neither progressive prohibitionists nor moderate reductionists could afford to fight without each other's help.
b. An advocate of reductionism; one who attempts to analyse or account for a complex theory or phenomenon by reduction. Also attrib. or as adj.
1934in Webster. 1943Mind LII. 129 The behaviour field which, as a whole, is molar from the reductionist's point of view. 1953K. Britton John Stuart Mill iii. 86 Here it was Comte who maintained a reductionist view, holding that all the laws of psychology must find their ultimate explanation in terms of bodily changes. 1956A. J. Ayer in H. D. Lewis Contemp. Brit. Philos. 60 The reductionist's hero is the average man who is patently a logical construction. 1960J. Cohen Chance, Skill & Luck i. 13 It does not follow that psychology lacks the status of an independent science and must be ‘reduced’ to neurophysiology, though this is what latter-day reductionists in effect demand. 1964I. L. Horowitz New Sociol. 9 It succeeds in re-tooling the ‘culture-lag’ doctrine by making it conform to its own reductionist image of society. 1974M. Wiles Remaking of Christian Doctrine i. 5 Reductionists who in the face of the evolution of the human species want to say that man is really nothing but his animal ancestry in another form. 1977Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Apr. 409/2 While the interpretation may be reductionist, it is a plausible one. |