Sentences with phrase «reductionist theories»

The ideologues of academia provide us with a whole string of reductionist theories which attempt to comprehend all human phenomena in a single stroke.

In his concern to avoid reducing the higher to the lower, has he succumbed to the opposite temptation — a reductionist theory in reverse?

It is also more congenial to modern medicine precisely because of the way it affirms the unity of mind and body — unlike a reductionist theory of mechanistic materialism or a pure spiritualism that denies the body's value.

If one wants a reductionist theory of evolution, surely the DNA nucleotide is the basic unit.

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Stripped down to the basics, they call themselves skeptical, but are generally only skeptical of theories and beliefs that do not fit in their very narrow reductionist belief system.

The contentions of reductionist biology and neurophysiology lead us to expect that such explanation will eventually be forthcoming or can at least be provided in theory.

At one level every hermeneutic is exclusive in practice, as when «process hermeneutics» centers attention on the metaphysical claims of Biblical texts about the reality of God (e.g., see MEH).2 But «process hermeneutics» refuses to be reductionist in its theory of interpretation, understanding, and meaning; hence, its inclusive hospitality to «any and all disciplined methods of interpretation,» as Kelsey puts it (compare, e.g., RPIPS, especially 106 - 15).

As Pope John Paul explained, there are several «theories of evolution», some of which are entirely compatible with a Creator and Sustainer God; some of which are reductionist, atheistic and materialistic - particularly in their denial of a personal Creator and the rejection of the immortality of the soul (To PAS, ibid).

Rick Strassman has proposed a theory even more reductionist and far - fetched than Hamer's, yet one that has empirical support.

So, I had to develop a whole theory, a whole paradigm, to be able to understand them because, as you've said, the Cartesian does not at all, the reductionist does not at all.

This theory is accused of being reductionist because it assumes that people who are insecurely attached as infants would have poor quality adult relationships.

However, this theory has been accused of being reductionist because it assumes that people who are insecurely attached as children will become insecurely attached as adults and have poor quality adult relationships.