释义 |
reductioˈnistic, a. [f. reduction + -istic.] = reductionist a. Hence reductioˈnistically adv.
1960B. G. Andreas Exper. Psychol. viii. 213 In psychology a theory may be considered reductionistic if, in addition to describing behavioral events, it employs constructs from physiology. 1965Jrnl. Politics XXVII. 783 The list of problems and events treated reductionistically is enormous. 1971Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. LXXXIV. 152 It is quite easy to see how each generation of reductionistically oriented theorizers was so easily seduced into using the most current, exciting, interesting, and potentially useful technology as the basis for its ideas. 1974B. F. Skinner About Behaviourism xiv. 240 A science of behaviour has been said to dehumanize man because it is reductionistic. 1976Smythies & Corbett Psychiatry i. 7 Current sociological theory is just as fragmented, disorganized and reductionistic as Freudian psychology. |