Reductionism
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Reductionism is a philosophy or approach to understanding the nature of complex things by reducing them to the interactions of their parts, simpler or more fundamental things. This can be said of objects, phenomena, explanations, theories, and meanings.
See also
- Antireductionism
- Aristotle
- Eliminativism
- Emergentism
- Holism
- Materialism
- Multiple realizability was used as a source of arguments against reductionism.
- Philosophy of Mind
- Physicalism
- Physical ontology
- Scientism
- Systems theory
- Symmetry breaking
- Theology
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