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

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  • (noun) An approach to studying complex systems or ideas by reducing them to a set of simpler components.
  • (noun) 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".

Meanings

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