Reductionism Ignores or excludes context and reduces explanations for problems to the physical realm, overlooking social, cultural, psychological, or environmental factors that contribute to or influence why a phenomenon occurs (1).
Mr. Anwar's supporters said the sentence, on a charge that was reduced without explanation, was inadequate.
The study suggests that overall, many students feel they don't learn course material as well online, and that this deficit is due to reduced teacher explanation and interaction in online courses.
Experience tells us that the mind and body depend upon one another in a mutual commerce, and their dependence is the essence of the nature of the mind-body union, and cannot be further reduced in explanation.
Character two, Pendergrast's organ [0 = absent or reduced, see explanation in Methods, 1 = present].
Now that seems like an anxiety-reducing explanation with which Winnicott would have entirely agreed.
This was in the 1980s, at the city's nadir – the graffiti-covered trains would pause for half an hour in mid-flight; the tinny speakers would reduce the explanation of the trouble to gibberish.
The C statistic of models with and without a particular variable were then compared; if dropping that variable did not significantly reduce the explanation of the CKD, that variable was omitted in the final parsimonious model.
Reductionist approaches try to reduce social explanations of mental illness to explanations at "lower" levels such as the biological, while pluralist approaches encourage the co-existence of explanations of mental illness at a variety of levels.
Absurdity and wonder can be revealed and their ramifications expounded, but they cannot be made to make sense; they can't be reduced to any explanation.
At the same time, the different levels of complexity cannot be reduced to an explanation of one type or level of complexity.
