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Reductionism
Meaning
Noun
●
In Systems theory:
An approach to
studying
complex
systems or
ideas
by
reducing
them to a set of
simpler
components.
●
In 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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