Reductionist in a sentence

The whole thing is done with zest, wit, and a pleasingly reductionist approach to the Edsperanto jargon with which colleges obfuscate their aims and methods.

In slightly reductionist terms, rent has almost doubled in ten years, a not so rare phenomenon in Saskatchewan according to the aforementioned report by Paul Gingrich, himself a retired U of R sociology professor.

In fact, the reductionist approach has often been shown to be wrong.

Although I sympathize with the gradualism Benton proposes as a discursive strategy against idealistically setting arbitrary differences, it remains reductionist to disallow a conceptualization of qualitative differences between animals and humans.

Not to have an over-reductionist observation, but it seems that according to Christ’s model, discipleship came first (Matt. 4:19), with the selection of the 12 disciples.

Classically, metabolism is studied by a reductionist approach that focuses on a single metabolic pathway.

Hegel's position is perhaps best illuminated when contrasted against the atomistic and reductionist opinion of human societies and social activities self-defining on an ad hoc basis through the sum of dozens of interactions.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Congress continued the reductionist trend even while Amtrak expenses held steady or rose.

Nadel (1999), 10 In form his criticism and essays are direct, repetitive and reductionist, his rhetoric minimalist, filled with "strident impatience", according to Pound scholar Jason Coats, and frequently failing to make a coherent claim.

Such movements see modernism as reductionist, and therefore subject to an inability to see systemic and emergent effects.

Technological determinism is a reductionist theory that presumes that a society's technology drives the development of its social structure and cultural values.

The conflict between reductionism and holism in science is not universal—it usually centers on whether or not a holistic or reductionist approach is appropriate in the context of studying a specific system or phenomenon.

The reductionist approach to producing color is to start with a lino or wood block that is either blank or with a simple etching.

Ulam was the one who suggested using a discrete system for creating a reductionist model of self-replication.

Weinberg (1993), Ch 2. One view is the hard reductionist position that the ToE is the fundamental law and that all other theories that apply within the universe are a consequence of the ToE.

When describing the lexicon, a reductionist approach is used, trying to remain general while using a minimal description.