Sentence examples for reductionist terms from inspiring English sources

"He is someone who views the world in reductionist terms, who sees life as a clash between good and evil," said Robert Dallek, a presidential historian and the author of a two-volume biography of Lyndon B. Johnson.

If you need it put in more reductionist terms it can be summed up like this: Believing in Jesus Christ as the resurrected son of the creator of the universe who will eventually return to Earth equals not-crazy; believing that you know when Jesus Christ will make that triumphant return equals crazy.

However, such labels oversimplify the developmental role of Runx, which is context-dependent and hence resistant to functional categorization in simple reductionist terms.

Also included are what press materials oddly term "reductionist classical works": Balanchine's "Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux" and extracts from "Swan Lake" (which, as I won't be the first to remark, is really a bit odd for a company called Ballet Next).

Ockham's nominal definitions, then, should not be seen as reductionist devices for eliminating certain terms, but as a privileged means for making conspicuous what the (primary and secondary) significates of the defined terms are.

Insofar as New Wave reductionists conceive of reduction in terms of replacement, they just miss the target.

In this lies one motivation for the reductionist treatment of his so-called 'mass terms' in Quine 1960, ch. 3. 24.

Reductionist approaches to improving health that emphasize short-term goals have too often undermined local health systems by neglecting to strengthen local organizations.

This reductionist view of sentient beings was later articulated in terms of the distinction between two kinds of truth, conventional and ultimate.

Reductionists seek ways of spelling out the proviso in terms of homogenous reference classes, where homogeneity is spelled out in terms of robust correlations conditional on a set of factors that are held fixed.

Degeneracy is a distributed property of complex adaptive systems that in many circles of science has been hidden in plain sight [ 4], commonly overlooked because of a reductionist bias [ 5, 6], and ignored because the term itself is misleading [ 7].