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Definition of Reductionists
1. reductionist [n] - See also: reductionist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reductionists
Literary usage of Reductionists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Molecular Neurobiology: Proceedings of the 2nd NIMH Conference by Steven Zalcman (1995)
"Over the last decade, reductionists' studies of the neurobiology of learning and
memory have been particularly effective using simple vertebrate and several ..."
2. At the Hour of Death by Karlis Osis, Erlendur Haraldsson (1997)
"While reductionists try to reduce out-of-body experiences to pathological or
psychological factors, and the out-of-body perception to ordinary ESP ..."
3. The Future of Privacy by Perri 6 (1998)
"... and policy design should be a matter of alignment with economic and technological
forces (reductionists) O the framework of risk perception, ..."
4. Useful Knowledge: The American Philosophical Society Millennium Program by Alexander G. Bearn, American Philosophical Society (1999)
"I want to say to all the reductionists I know: "Let go of the banana." The emphasis
on individual cultures, when reduced to the absurd (as it too often is), ..."
5. Useful Knowledge: The American Philosophical Society Millennium Program by Alexander G. Bearn, American Philosophical Society (1999)
"I want to say to all the reductionists I know: "Let go of the banana." The emphasis
on individual cultures, when reduced to the absurd (as it too often is), ..."
6. Advanced Methodological Issues in Culturally Competent Evaluation for edited by Ada-Helen Bayer, Frances L. Brisbane, Amelie Ramirez, Leonard G. Epstein (1998)
"Of course, that is a major point that separates the radical relativists from the
universalists or reductionists. Somewhat paradoxically, one may never know ..."
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