REDUCTIONISM

12 letters 17 Scrabble points

Definition of REDUCTIONISM

noun

  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".

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Word Details

Letters R E D U C T I O N I S M
Length 12 letters
Scrabble Score 17 points