reductionism

As nouns the difference between reductionism and minimalism

is that reductionism is an approach to studying complex systems or ideas by reducing them to a set of simpler components while minimalism is (arts) a style of art that emphasises extreme simplicity of form.

As nouns the difference between reductionism and reduction

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

In philosophy terms the difference between reductionism and positivism

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 positivism is a doctrine that states that the only authentic knowledge is scientific knowledge, and that such knowledge can only come from positive affirmation of theories through strict scientific method, refusing every form of metaphysics.

As nouns the difference between reductionism and positivism

is that reductionism is an approach to studying complex systems or ideas by reducing them to a set of simpler components while positivism is a doctrine that states that the only authentic knowledge is scientific knowledge, and that such knowledge can only come from positive affirmation of theories through strict scientific method, refusing every form of metaphysics.

As nouns the difference between analysis and reductionism

is that analysis is decomposition into components in order to study (a complex thing, concept, theory...) while reductionism is an approach to studying complex systems or ideas by reducing them to a set of simpler components.

As an adjective reductive

is pertaining to the reduction of a decree etc.; rescissory.

As a noun reductionism is

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

As nouns the difference between reductionism and abstraction

is that reductionism is an approach to studying complex systems or ideas by reducing them to a set of simpler components while abstraction is the act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away.

As nouns the difference between reductionism and reductivism

is that reductionism is an approach to studying complex systems or ideas by reducing them to a set of simpler components while reductivism is extreme simplification; reduction to a minimum; use of the fewest essentials; minimalism.

As a noun reductionism is

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

As nouns the difference between historicism and reductionism

is that historicism is a theory that events are influenced by historical conditions, rather than by people while reductionism is an approach to studying complex systems or ideas by reducing them to a set of simpler components.