Usually means: Simplifying complex systems to components.
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  1. reductionism: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. reductionism: Merriam-Webster
  3. reductionism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. reductionism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  9. reductionism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  15. reductionism: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
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  1. Reductionism: Eastern Philosophy
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  1. Reductionism: Cybernetics and Systems

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  1. reductionism: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  2. Reductionism: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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Definitions from Wiktionary (reductionism)

noun:  An approach to studying complex systems or ideas by reducing them to a set of simpler components.
noun:  (philosophy) 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. In a reductionist framework, the phenomena that can be explained completely in terms of relations between other more fundamental phenomena are called "epiphenomena".

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