reductionism

== English == === Etymology === From reduction + -ism. === Pronunciation === === Noun === reductionism (countable and uncountable, plural reductionisms) An approach to studying complex systems or ideas by reducing them to a set of simpler components. (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". ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== holism === Anagrams === misintroduce