Sentence examples for reductionist explanation from inspiring English sources

Does the current hierarchy of theories provide a reductionist explanation?

Nevertheless, as with dispersalism before, cladistic biogeography became in time a too "reductionist" explanation because it denied dispersal of any major role in generating global biodiversity patterns.

Paragraph-by-paragraph, you accumulate, to borrow your own evaluative term, tired logic shaped by an unresearched and reductionist explanation of black cultural production and a dismissal of black female subjective experiences.

We here propose a different "reductionist" explanation that is consistent with our data.

It's tempting to look for simple, reductionist explanations, but when it comes to something as complex as mental health, they are usually wrong.

Yet, as a culture that tends to look for black-and-white, reductionist explanations, it is doubtful that we will ever fill in the gaps in our understanding of a situation that is shot through with ambiguity.

The data collected from the Amerindians and its complexity delighted him, and made him react permanently against reductionist explanations of culture, which implicitly denied the intellectual achievement that indigenous mythology and social thought represented.

Are psychological phenomena subject to reductionist explanations via neuroscience?

Students need to value and engage in reductionist explanations of plant growth and metabolism as visible manifestations of underlying chemical changes.

Patients' and parents' desire for a more "holistic" approach to asthma supports the findings of previous research that asthma patients using a complementary therapy wish to be treated as "a whole person" [ 26] and adds weight to the argument that complementary therapies offer patients new ways of understanding their condition that go beyond "reductionist" explanations [ 30].

This would seem to be the whole point of an anti-reductionist explanation of legal validity: since we cannot derive an "ought" from an "is", some "ought" must be presupposed in the background that would enable us to interpret certain acts or events as having legal significance.