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Meaning of Reductionism | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. An approach to studying complex systems or ideas by reducing them to a set of simpler components.
  2. 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".

Equivalents

العربية التبسيط
Čeština redukcionismus
Français réductionnisme
Bahasa Indonesia reduksionisme
Türkçe redüksiyonizm

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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