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).
Now that seems like an anxiety-reducing explanation with which Winnicott would have entirely agreed.
Mr. Anwar's supporters said the sentence, on a charge that was reduced without explanation, was inadequate.
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.
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].
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.
If qualia-concepts or concepts of conscious states pick out mental states in terms of features that cannot be fully explained in terms of the vocabulary of the reducing science, the explanation and hence the reduction is not successful.
For example, if the patient wishes to receive the result by SMS, the mobile phone number can be confirmed at the point of ordering; subsequent actions, contingent on the result, can also be agreed at this point, and patients can be provided information on the implications of the result, providing reassurance and reducing requests for explanation from unqualified staff downstream.
Validation of the data to upgrade from weak to strong or strong to confirmed evidence requires in addition high congruence, that is confirmation of the data by truly independent methods that reduce alternative explanations for the findings.
