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单词 reductionist
释义

reductionist

/rɪˈdʌkʃ(ə)nɪst /
often derogatory
noun
A person who analyses and describes a complex phenomenon in terms of its simple or fundamental constituents: a crude reductionist...
  • More conservatively, however, many reductionists reintroduced elements of composition into improvised music.
  • He attacks the critics of postmodernism by calling them sociological reductionists.
  • The author makes claims for the central importance of the railway in every aspect of life without seeming a crude reductionist.
adjective
Analysing and describing a complex phenomenon in terms of its simple or fundamental constituents: a reductionist approach that leads to stereotyping...
  • The advent of specific drugs joined with a more research-based, reductionist brand of medical diagnosis.
  • I do think the way the site evaluates films is a little reductionist.
  • Reductionist science is considered bad science with politically oppressive implications.

Derivatives

reductionistic

/rɪˌdʌkʃ(ə)ˈnɪstɪk/ adjective ...
  • Collage was my way of stepping outside the reductionistic process of modernism.
  • He has written several books decrying the tendency of scientists to be overly reductionistic in their analyses.
  • He finds much modern science to be reductionistic.

Rhymes

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