Bütün fenomenlerin daha basit bir fenomen içinde anlaşılabileceğini söyleyen bir teori. Bütün karmaşık sistemlerin kendi parçalarının içinde tamamen anlaşılabileceğini söyleyen bir teori.Karmaşık sistemlerin daha basit bileşenler içinde analizi
Определение reductionism в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь
an approach to studying complex systems or ideas by reducing them to a set of simpler components
any of several theories holding that complex systems or ideas can always be reduced to a set of simpler components
A philosophical idea that it is possible to explain phenomena in terms of their parts
when someone tries to explain complicated ideas or systems in very simple terms - often used to show disapproval
The general attempt to explain and interpret phenomena by means of analysis into simpler components and principles at a different level of analysis
- The dominant approach to the scientific method, which reduces the complexity of causative factors in the real world to one or at most a few factors which are then hoisted up as the explanatory substance of that reality Reduces organisms, and life itself, to their mechanistic parts and disregards the interconnections and dynamism between genes, physiological systems, organisms and their environments Opposite is systems approach
the analysis of complex things into simpler constituents a theory that all complex systems can be completely understood in terms of their components
Belief that statements or expressions of one sort can be replaced systematically by statements or expressions of a simpler or more certain kind Thus, for example, some philosophers have held that arithmetic can be reduced to logic, that the mental can be reduced to the physical, or that the life sciences can be reduced to the physical sciences Recommended Reading: Ernest Nagel, Structure of Science (Hackett, 1979) {at Amazon com}; Richard H Jones, Reductionism: Analysis and the Fullness of Reality (Bucknell, 2000) {at Amazon com}; Reduction, Explanation, and Realism, ed by David Charles and Kathleen Lennon (Oxford, 1993) {at Amazon com}; Valerie Gray Hardcastle, How to Build a Theory in Cognitive Science (SUNY, 1996) {at Amazon com}; and Harold Kincaid, Individualism and the Unity of Science (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997) {at Amazon com} Also see articles on reductionism and reductionism in the philosophy of mind in OCP, and BGHT, ISM, noesis, and MacE
The practice of some researchers to reduce complex behaviors to simple terms, often simplistic, thereby creating error in their interpretations of the behaviors