reductionism

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and reductionism

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while reductionism is an approach to studying complex systems or ideas by reducing them to a set of simpler components.

In philosophy terms the difference between reductionism and reductionism

is that reductionism is reductionism is 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. This can be said of objects, phenomena, explanation, theories, and meanings. Reductionism strongly reflects a certain perspective on causality. In a reductionist framework, the phenomena that can be explained completely in terms of relations between other more fundamental phenomena, are called "epiphenomena". Often there is an implication that the epiphenomenon exerts no causal agency on the fundamental phenomena that explain it. Reductionism does not preclude the existence of what might be called "emergent phenomena", but it does imply the ability to understand those phenomena completely in terms of the processes from which they are composed while reductionism is reductionism is 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. This can be said of objects, phenomena, explanation, theories, and meanings. Reductionism strongly reflects a certain perspective on causality. In a reductionist framework, the phenomena that can be explained completely in terms of relations between other more fundamental phenomena, are called "epiphenomena". Often there is an implication that the epiphenomenon exerts no causal agency on the fundamental phenomena that explain it. Reductionism does not preclude the existence of what might be called "emergent phenomena", but it does imply the ability to understand those phenomena completely in terms of the processes from which they are composed.

As nouns the difference between reductionism and reductionism

is that reductionism is an approach to studying complex systems or ideas by reducing them to a set of simpler components while reductionism is an approach to studying complex systems or ideas by reducing them to a set of simpler components.

Reductionism is a see also of holist.

As nouns the difference between reductionism and holist

is that reductionism is an approach to studying complex systems or ideas by reducing them to a set of simpler components while holist is a believer in, or practitioner of, holism; one who believes that a topic of study cannot be fully understood by studying the parts, or who studies by considering the whole.

As an adjective holist is

(education|of a learning strategy) that concentrates on forming an overview of the topic.

As nouns the difference between reductionism and nonreductionism

is that reductionism is an approach to studying complex systems or ideas by reducing them to a set of simpler components while nonreductionism is any treatment, theory etc. that is counter to reductionism.

Reductionism is a related term of reductiveness.

As nouns the difference between reductionism and reductiveness

is that reductionism is an approach to studying complex systems or ideas by reducing them to a set of simpler components while reductiveness is the quality of being reductive, of reducing things to their components.

As a noun reductionism

is an approach to studying complex systems or ideas by reducing them to a set of simpler components.

As an adjective reductionistic is

of or pertaining to reductionism.