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What does reductionism mean?

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  1. An approach to studying complex systems or ideas by reducing them to a set of simpler components.
  2. (philosophy) A philosophical position which holds that a complex system is nothing but the sum of its parts, and that an account of it can be reduced to accounts of individual constituents. In a reductionist framework, the phenomena that can be explained completely in terms of relations between other more fundamental phenomena, are called "epiphenomena".
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This reductionism is an ideological fantasy, rather than a theoretical position resting on solid argument.
Here the mind is not limited by any reductionism such as religion, caste, nationality etc.
Such reductionism is done purposefully to justify military aggression, he added.
Her faith, however, is not a simple brand of spiritual reductionism whereupon community and congregational problems can be explained by God.
That does not require that in embracing naturalism one also embrace determinism, physicalism, and reductionism.
This kind of reductionism is not very useful, and it is also politically paralysing.

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