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reductionist /rɪˈdʌkʃ(ə)nɪst /often derogatory nounA 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.
adjectiveAnalysing 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.
Derivativesreductionistic /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.
Rhymesobstructionist |