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Simplification vs Complexification - What's the difference?

simplification | complexification | Antonyms |

Simplification is an antonym of complexification.


As nouns the difference between simplification and complexification

is that simplification is the act of simplifying or something that has been simplified while complexification is (uncountable) the act or process of making something more complex.

simplification

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • the act of simplifying or something that has been simplified
  • (logic) a valid simple argument

    • complexification

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (uncountable) The act or process of making something more complex.
  • (countable, mathematics) An extension from a basis on real numbers to a basis on complex numbers.

    • Antonyms

    * simplification

    Quotations

    * * 1955 , Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man , p. 48 *: This fundamental discovery that all bodies owe their origin to arrangements of single initial corpuscular type is the beacon that lights the history of the universe to our eyes. In its own way, matter obeyed from the beginning that great law of biology to which we shall have to recur time and time again, the law of 'complexification' . * 1998 , Nicholas Rescher, Complexity: A Philosophical Overview , page 56 *: For rational beings will of course try simple things first and thereafter be driven step by step towards an ever enhanced '''complexification * 2002 , Charles J. Kibert, Jan Sendzimir and G. Bradley Guy (editors), Timothy F.H. Allen, Construction Ecology'', ''Nature as the basis for green buildings , page 114, Taylor & Francis, ISBN 0415260922, page 114 *: A new complexification occurs when the situation becomes desperate through crashing marginal returns on increasing complicatedness. * 2006 April, Andrew D. M. Smith, “Semantic reconstructibility and the complexification of language”, The Evolution of Language'', ''Proceedings of the 6th International Conference (EVOLANG6) , World Scientific, ISBN 9812566562, page 307 *: The development of protolanguage into modern human language, and the complexification of language more generally, can only occur when language users can successfully communicate even while they maintain different internal representations of language.