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Reductionism

Reductionism is any of several related philosophical ideas regarding the associations between phenomena which can be described in terms of simpler or more fundamental phenomena. It is also described as an intellectual and philosophical position that interprets a complex system as the sum of its parts, contrary to holism. Reductionism tends to focus on…

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related to Further reading · 124
Reductionism → Albany, Alexander, An Introduction, Analysis, Antica Medicina, Archived, Basic Books, Biology, Bottom Down, Boundaries, Capra, Chicago Press, Churchland, Contexts, Cosenza Italy, Daniel, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Darwinian Reductionism, David, Dawkins
related to External links · 16
Reductionism → Alan Love, Alyssa Ney, Biology, Chemistry, Emergence, Galilean Library, Ingo Brigandt, Internet Encyclopedia, John Dupré, Monica Anderson, Philosophy, Reductionism Considered Harmful Archived, Science, The Disunity, The Stanford Encyclopedia, Wayback MachineReduction
related to Free will · 11
Reductionism → Albrecht Ritschl, Descartes, Enlightenment, Enlightenment German, Friedrich Schleiermacher, German, Immanuel Kant, Philosophers, Romantic, The, To
related to In science · 8
Reductionism → An, For, George Kelly, He, In, Others, Robert Ulanowicz, The
related to In computer science · 7
Reductionism → Further, In, More, Reduction, The, Thus, Turing
related to Causation · 5
Reductionism → Alfred North Whitehead's, He, His, Most, Opponents
related to Definitions · 5
Reductionism → Methodological, Ontological, Philosophy, The Oxford Companion, Theory
related to In mathematics · 5
Reductionism → Ernst Zermelo, In, It, Jouko Väänänen, Zermelo's
related to Ontological reductionism · 4
Reductionism → Nancey Murphy, Richard Jones, She, This
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Reductionism → definition provided by Simon Blackburn and by Jaegwon Kim, idea that every item that exists is a sum item, idea that every type of item is a sum type of item

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