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