that reductionism is "one of the most used and abused terms in the philosophical lexicon" and suggests a three-part division: Ontological reductionism: a... 29 KB (3,188 words) - 03:32, 11 March 2024 |
Greedy reductionism, identified by Daniel Dennett, in his 1995 book Darwin's Dangerous Idea, is a kind of erroneous reductionism. Whereas "good" reductionism... 8 KB (1,010 words) - 15:59, 3 February 2024 |
Adolph Reed claims that class reductionism is a "myth", accusing those who use the term of instead engaging in "race reductionism". Economism Intersectionality... 4 KB (385 words) - 11:50, 11 December 2023 |
reductionism is the belief that understanding genes is sufficient to understand all aspects of human behavior. It is a specific form of reductionism and... 3 KB (318 words) - 20:31, 9 March 2024 |
Antireductionism (redirect from Anti reductionism) science Systems theory Thomas Nagel (1998). "Reductionism and antireductionism" (PDF). The Limits of Reductionism in Biology: Novartis Foundation Symposium... 13 KB (1,391 words) - 23:39, 2 September 2023 |
common words Definite article reduction, use of vowel-less forms of the English definite article in Northern England Reductionism, a range of philosophical... 8 KB (1,078 words) - 01:25, 2 November 2023 |
Reductionism is a form of improvised music that developed towards the end of the 20th century, centered in Berlin, London, Tokyo, and Vienna. The key characteristics... 2 KB (123 words) - 02:10, 27 September 2023 |
Redox (redirect from Reduction (chemistry)) Redox (/ˈrɛdɒks/ RED-oks, /ˈriːdɒks/ REE-doks, reduction–oxidation or oxidation–reduction: 150 ) is a type of chemical reaction in which the oxidation... 36 KB (3,534 words) - 02:24, 20 April 2024 |
Fallacy of the single cause (redirect from Causal reductionism) as complex cause, causal oversimplification, causal reductionism, root cause fallacy, and reduction fallacy, is an informal fallacy of questionable cause... 2 KB (245 words) - 16:05, 21 February 2024 |
Log reduction is a measure of how thoroughly a decontamination process reduces the concentration of a contaminant. It is defined as the common logarithm... 4 KB (492 words) - 13:02, 6 March 2024 |
Redox potential (also known as oxidation / reduction potential, ORP, pe, E r e d {\displaystyle E_{red}} , or E h {\displaystyle E_{h}} ) is a measure... 24 KB (3,173 words) - 23:59, 24 February 2024 |
Reduction of order (or d’Alembert reduction) is a technique in mathematics for solving second-order linear ordinary differential equations. It is employed... 7 KB (1,484 words) - 00:51, 25 April 2024 |
The term population reduction may refer to: Population decline or depopulation, reductions in human population levels for reasons such as low birth rate... 585 bytes (104 words) - 12:07, 21 July 2022 |
Risk reduction may refer to: Health Absolute risk reduction or relative risk reduction, statistical descriptors of an intervention. Harm reduction, in... 366 bytes (69 words) - 18:39, 30 January 2024 |
Data reduction is the transformation of numerical or alphabetical digital information derived empirically or experimentally into a corrected, ordered... 6 KB (703 words) - 11:09, 9 March 2024 |
In computer science, graph reduction implements an efficient version of non-strict evaluation, an evaluation strategy where the arguments to a function... 5 KB (552 words) - 13:39, 24 August 2022 |
Reduction of capital or capital reduction is to decrease stock of a company. During reduction of capital, sometimes the company returns a portion of the... 829 bytes (85 words) - 23:52, 31 May 2022 |
The Béchamp reduction (or Béchamp process) is a chemical reaction that converts aromatic nitro compounds to their corresponding anilines using iron as... 5 KB (509 words) - 22:09, 22 April 2024 |
In computer science, the reduction operator is a type of operator that is commonly used in parallel programming to reduce the elements of an array into... 19 KB (3,205 words) - 13:24, 28 December 2023 |
Two Dogmas of Empiricism (section Reductionism) acceptable proof, Quine maintains that reductionism is another "metaphysical article of faith". Instead of reductionism, Quine proposes that it is the whole... 18 KB (2,549 words) - 16:02, 13 September 2023 |
In cooking, reduction is the process of thickening and intensifying the flavor of a liquid mixture, such as a soup, sauce, wine or juice, by simmering... 3 KB (300 words) - 08:28, 11 April 2024 |
Interproximal reduction (IPR, also called interproximal enamel reduction (IER), slendering, air rotor stripping (ARS) or reproximation) is the practice... 9 KB (1,157 words) - 23:22, 27 March 2024 |
States patent law, the reduction to practice is the step in the formation of an invention beyond the conception thereof. Reduction to practice may be either... 4 KB (472 words) - 12:12, 23 December 2022 |
In computability theory, a Turing reduction from a decision problem A {\displaystyle A} to a decision problem B {\displaystyle B} is an oracle machine... 12 KB (1,841 words) - 11:44, 2 April 2024 |
In organochlorine chemistry, reductive dechlorination describes any chemical reaction which cleaves the covalent bond between carbon and chlorine via... 15 KB (1,696 words) - 15:00, 28 September 2023 |
Accent reduction, also known as accent modification or accent neutralization, is a systematic approach for learning or adopting a new speech accent. It... 5 KB (587 words) - 08:17, 6 January 2024 |