Sentence examples for as a reductionist from inspiring English sources

Firstly, type-identity theory was proposed as a reductionist position about the mind.

Before the development of the notion of supervenience, physicalism was often stated as a reductionist thesis.

Thus, the glass-supported planar lipid bilayer system can serve as a reductionist approach to study CAR IS.

Some GPs criticise the fact that EBM seems to develop as a reductionist model to judge results of clinical acting.

In many cases, it will be quite apparent how this holistic view of organismal biology runs counter to many other approaches, such as a reductionist focus of inferring ecological functions from a static description of discrete morphological traits.

Animal studies are usually pursued as part of a reductionist approach aimed at controlling as many variables as possible in order to isolate mechanistic effects, but their interpretation and extrapolation to the clinical setting reminds us that in critical care, clinicians think of effects on different systems all together.

In particular it will provide a comprehensive review of different sustainability evaluation tools (from a reductionist perspective) as well as the feasibility of incorporating them within a sustainability assessment framework.

Following a reductionist strategy as well as practical necessity, these recordings of CNS dynamics are very often obtained from parts of the CNS, or even the whole CNS, in vitro.

As noted, Lewis is a reductionist about modal facts themselves.

Eckstrand points out an irony: As biology moves from a reductionist picture of how things work -- one that historically is modeled on physics -- there is an increased need to better understand complex systems.

One academic suggested to the Guardian that some of the advisers looked like "an Iraq war reunion", while another who does not want to be named for fear of disadvantaging any future graduates who want to apply, says: "The whole idea that one can produce world leaders in one year on one course strikes me as a bit reductionist.