reductionism

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An approach to studying complex systems or ideas by reducing them to a set of simpler components. countable,uncountable
  2. 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". countable,uncountable

词形变化

reductionisms plural

词汇关系

衍生词
antireductionism neuroreductionism nonreductionism
相关词
reductionist reductivism holism

词源

Etymology tree
English reduction
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English reductionism
From reduction + -ism.
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