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reductionism

[riduk′shəniz′əm]

an approach that tries to explain a form of behavior or an event in terms of a specific category of phenomena, such as biologic, psychologic, or cultural, negating the possibility of an interrelation of causal phenomena.

reductionism(rē·dukˑ·sh

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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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