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单词 reductionist
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reductionist
adjective
uk
/rɪˈdʌk.ʃən.ɪst/us
/rɪˈdʌk.ʃən.ɪst/
formal
consideringorpresentingsomethingcomplicatedin asimpleway,especiallya way that is toosimple:
a reductionistapproach
The reductionistargumentsays that anything can beartsolongas someone says it is.
sciencespecialized
relatingto thebeliefthatcomplexlivingsystemscan beexplainedby thelawsofphysicsandchemistry, or having thisbelief:
Thissimplisticreductionistmodelhas pathologized a lot ofhumandistress.
Scientificcriticshaveaccusedhim of being too reductionist.
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  • Herworkhas always beenhighlyreductionist initssimpleshapesandcolours.
  • Yousimplycan'tlivein aworldof reductionist,short-termthinking.
  • a reductionistviewofreality
  • Heclaimedthatcontemporarysciencewas very reductionist.
  • Misapplication of the reductionistmentalityofphysicistshas oftenledlifescientistsintotrouble.
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  • anti-reductionist
  • broad brush
  • broaden
  • enlarge
  • enlarge on/uponsomething
  • expand
  • expand onsomething
  • expansively
  • over-elaboration
  • overgeneralization
  • overgeneralize
  • oversimplification
  • oversimplify
  • specificity
  • specify
  • split hairsidiom
  • standardization
  • standardize
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reductionist
noun[C]
uk/rɪˈdʌk.ʃən.ɪst/us/rɪˈdʌk.ʃən.ɪst/
formal
someone wholikestoconsiderorpresentsomethingcomplicatedin asimpleway,especiallya way that is toosimple:
Whenconsideringnations, most of us are reductionists,believingthat theexistenceof anationinvolvesnothing more than theexistenceofitscitizens,livingtogether onitsterritory.
sciencespecialized
someone whobelievesthatcomplexlivingsystemscan beexplainedby thelawsofphysicsandchemistry:
The reductionists have madecountlessdesperateattemptstoquantifythe unmeasurable.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Elaborating, specifying and simplifying
  • abstract
  • anti-reductionism
  • anti-reductionist
  • broad brush
  • broaden
  • enlarge
  • enlarge on/uponsomething
  • expand
  • expand onsomething
  • expansively
  • over-elaboration
  • overgeneralization
  • overgeneralize
  • oversimplification
  • oversimplify
  • specificity
  • specify
  • split hairsidiom
  • standardization
  • standardize
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(Definition ofreductionistfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofreductionist

reductionist
The situations of older people are often ' medicalised ' or ' economised ', and areductionistmedical or economic grid is arbitrarily placed over the discussion.
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Traditionally, thereductionistapproach has been applied to cardiac research, collecting data from isolated building blocks of the highly integrated cardiac system.
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The other approach isreductionist, isolating the component structures of a deformed body in such a way that they can be idealized and modelled mathematically.
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What justifies areductionistargument is the goodness of fit between the two independently established theories.
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The physicalist hopes to find a way to understand all personal meanings and all psychological representations in some form ofreductionistaccount.
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The advertisers' attempts to combat multilingualism also seem to result inreductionistrepresentations.
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That discussion will also allow us to see the significance of the distinction betweenreductionistand anti-reductionistversions of consequentialism.
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However, note that for the hardnosedreductionistthese practical objections merely beg the question.
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We need a new clinical method that transcends dualism and transforms the current 'reductionist' model into a genuinely integrative model of medical care.
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I will show that there is little reason to reject his conclusion in favor of a morereductionistaccount.
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The view that advertising texts offer isreductionist.
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The discussion of 'anti-histories' is stimulating but a littlereductionist.
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We can speak in this case of areductionistproject, even of a project of mechanical reductionism.
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A properly ethnographic study of cetaceans would directly subvert their positivist methodology andreductionistassumptions.
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Clearly, one of the biggest achievements of the book is that this narrow focus is shown to be inappropriatelyreductionist.
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