Example Sentences

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"If you really get reductionistic about it, the only problem in your life is pain. "

From Salon • Sep. 25, 2023

Wilson acknowledges that consilience is a reductionistic enterprise, which will eliminate many ways of seeing the world.

From Scientific American • Jun. 25, 2021

List: The free-will denial we are now seeing appears to be a by-product of the growing popularity of a reductionistic worldview in which everything is thought to be reducible to physical processes.

From Scientific American • Jun. 8, 2019

And of all the reductionistic scientific explanation to give, those for psychological phenomena are surely the most enticing.

From Slate • May 6, 2016

It is crudely reductionistic to do biographical readings of poems, of course, and it goes without saying that a poem of any accomplishment rises above the particular psychological alchemy of its making.

From Slate • Feb. 11, 2013