reductionistic

• a word derived from reductionism.
  reductionism

  noun

  the theory that every complex phenomenon, especially in biology or psychology, can be explained by analyzing the simplest, most basic physical mechanisms that are in operation during the phenomenon.
• a word derived from reductionist.
  reductionist

  adjective

  based on or explained by an analysis of the simplest or most basic factors of a complex phenomenon.

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reductionistic

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

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2023

If we tried to understand humans in the first, reductionistic way, there would be little room for free will.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 8, 2019

"It sounds reductionistic," he says, "but a picture can be worth a thousand words."

From Scientific American ● Jul. 8, 2017

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

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