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reductionism

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reductionism(rē·dukˑ·sh·niˑ·zm),
n a tenet of the modern bioscientific approach to knowledge according to which anything complex can be explained primarily in terms of its simpler components.

reductionism
policy of reducing subjects to its parts in an attempt to simplfy the understanding of the whole. The opposite of holism.

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