Sentences with phrase «as reductionist»

Moreover, to continue to demonize «carbs,» «protein» or «fat» as reductionist components of whole foods is an unproductive misdirection, originally concocted by the meat, dairy and egg industries to cloak the cautionary recommendations issued by the USDA, e.q., instead of moderating meat, dairy or egg consumption, monitor «saturated fat» consumption.

I also need to point out here, for those whose view of Christian belief is as reductionist as Creationists» views of science, that Creationists, in fact, make up a vanishingly small portion of Christian beilevers worldwide, most of whom are perfectly comfortable with the science of evolution.

The question at issue is whether we can account for everything — e.g., all biological processes, including behaviour (and some people would include, others exclude, mind and / or conscious self - awareness)-- in terms of those entities, as reductionists and mechanists claimed, or do we have to invoke something else, which might be organizing relations» or «system properties,» as anti-reductionists and organicists argued.

Not exact matches

It reflects the same reductionist impulse of those Christians who transmute the Protestant principle of sola scriptura (scripture as the highest authority) into nuda scriptura (scripture as the only authority), and accordingly read the Bible as though the ancient councils of Nicaea, Constantinople, Ephesus, or Chalcedon had never happened.

The movie is the Cartesian reductionist version of reality, a substitute for the Mass, through which Binx attempts to certify his own validity as person.

He pointed out how, because of the dominant reductionist view of human nature, scientists are increasingly tempted to treat the human individual as «an object to be investigated, measured and experimented upon» rather than as an «irreducible subject».

Moreover, this reductionist behavior keeps us from showing the world what can happen when Christians see one another as brothers and sisters instead of only according to racial, ethnic, or social stereotypes.

In particular, there is an excellent discussion about the merits of taking an emergent and top - down view of brain function as opposed to a reductionist approach.

A recent study in a feminist periodical presents considerable evidence that reductionist stereotypes of Eddy that are still current, even among feminists, sprang to a surprising extent from resentment directed toward her as a woman making serious truth claims in a male - dominated society (Jean McDonald, «Mary Baker Eddy and the Nineteenth Century «Public» Woman: A Feminist Reappraisal, «Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion [Spring, 1986], pp. 89 - 112).

His exposure of Francis Fukuyama's unoriginal The Great Disruption as essentially reductionist Marxism is insightful.

So we are delivered from the «imitation of Jesus» type of theology and from that kind of reductionist thinking which interpreted Christianity as «following a great prophet» and nothing more.

But to talk about the life of men apart from the societies that shape and constitute them is similarly an abstraction which borders on the reductionist fallacy, which sees social wholes as merely summaries of individual behavior.

To re-make our «God - of - the - gaps» point, as the first modern philosopher of science, Francis Bacon, prophetically warned, holistic levels safe from science's influence will prove to be chimeras, andleave us all reductionists.

In speaking of science, the Pope appears, at Regensburg, to give some support for a reductionist understanding of the object of natural sciences, which process is proposed as following upon holistic «reasoning», that is metaphysics.

[Dennett's] limited and superficial book reads like a caricature of a caricature - for if Richard Dawkins has trivialized Darwin's richness by adhering to the strictest form of adaptationist argument in a maximally reductionist mode, then Dennett, as Dawkins» publicist, manages to convert an already vitiated and improbable account into an even more simplistic and uncompromising doctrine.

... Indeed, the agnostic philosopher Mary Midgely is famous for her critique of «Dawkinsist» orthodoxy as in itself «a strange faith»; a reductionist ideology.

Might not the reason lie in the apparent convenience of such a fundamental particle to reductionist philosophers such as Richard Dawkins.

But, as Popper points out, this reductionist passage was written in the very nick of time, for it was in the same year that Chadwick announced his discovery of the neutron and Anderson (1933) first discovered the positron.

Second, Popper suggests that scientists have to be reductionists in their methods, either naive or else more or less critical reductionists, and sometimes desperate critical reductionists, since, as he points out, hardly any major reduction in science has ever been completely successful.

It may seem as if Keynes is maintaining a «reductionist» conception of the relationship of parts and complexes which contradicts the organic conception.

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).

Neither is it a functionalist or reductionist argument for the existence of religion, as one might expect from disciples of Ernst Troeltsch, Claude Levi - Strauss, or Clifford Geertz.

On the contrary, he finds it useful to ponder an array of reductionist attempts to explain the existence of religion, from that which seeks to pinpoint the area of the human brain or the specific genes connected to religiosity to that which sees religion as a malfunction of the human mind or a vestigial remnant from a primitive stage of human development suitable only for whimpering, immature dullards (a point of view championed by the new atheists).

In fact, the religious view considers the secularist «mechanical materialist view of reality as too reductionist and as leaving out the «organic» and «spiritual» dimensions of human being and history and therefore as unable to renew the values of humanism and its reverence for life and the dignity of the human person in society in the name of which secularism started to protest against religious authoritarianism.

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).

As we've argued in the above - mentioned Comment we disagree with Schonborn that scientific methodology is intrinsically reductionist.

Reductionist analyses are analyses of the objective aspects of living organisms such as the conduction of electrical impulses in nerves or the biochemistry of the formation of blood.

(ii) Stephen Barr seems to take a similar position and to demur from the proposed «gap» concerning the presence of formality as well as the suggestion that biologists are, in their work, in any sense reductionist.

The true testing ground for the implicate - order strategy, it seems to me, may indeed be biology rather than physics, where abstract methods are so powerful as to perhaps make it dispensable: just as the old style building - block materialist was refuted not by philosophical polemic, but by the one authority in which he trusted, i.e., by physics itself, so the nothing - but reductionist in contemporary biology will modify his views should it be possible some day to provide him with a mathematical language that fills the currently existing gap between our formal knowledge of gene structure and combinations, and our intuitive apprehension of growth and shape.

The reductionist approach of addressing the needs for single nutrients should be addressed in a separate section or in an appendix as these represent interventions.

Like I said, I wanted to upvote your answer but as it stands it's just too reductionist.

And if you insist on characterising all 50,000 protesters (some of whom were academics) as rioting students then why not use the same reductionist metonymy to characterise all cats as grey or all Conservatives as the owners of moats and duck houses?

There are some books that purport to direct people to their «ideal careers» based on tests such as the Myers - Briggs, but this sounds a bit too reductionist to me.

Simultaneously, the bleakly reductionist view of evolution as a product of nothing more than the sum of individual self - interest, common currency in the past half - century, is softening as we consider how natural selection may work even at the level of entire ecosystems.

Rosenberg explained that most historians describe the thinking style of the period as «reductionist»: People started looking at smaller and smaller pieces of problems.

«Lila is a rigorous biophysical chemist, but unlike most chemists who avoid complexity and prefer reductionist type studies, Lila's whole career has been focused on applying chemistry and biophysical methods to the study of peptides and their role in biology as well as protein folding and trafficking in vivo,» says Jeffrey W. Kelly at The Scripps Research Institute.

In this course, trainees will perform experiments involving both classical physiological models, as well as modern reductionist approaches and confocal microscopy to follow trafficking of transporter proteins in cultured cells.

I see your point in some cases, but most people are struggling more from diseases of excess than from micronutrient deficiencies... The issue also with reductionist science as presented in most studies is it «may» miss the big picture.

While serving as Editor in Chief for the International Journal of Yoga Therapy, I participated in numerous animated exchanges with yoga therapists, teachers and researchers from around the world regarding whether or not scholars should engage in «a reductionist approach to the study of yoga» as the author of the critique recommends, or adopt a holistic, ecological framework that honors yoga's complex interplay of philosophies and practices, rather than its constituent parts.

I could say that I am healthy now because I excluded all foods that contain food coloring which is not really accurate, its reductionist as well.

Psychiatrists regard troublesome emotions as emerging from inborn error of neurochemical trafficking, with a reductionist focus on serotonin.

I'd be very happy to hear what Dr. Greger says about it, as I find no value in specific «reductionist» studies checking effects of chia seeds, and do not talk about how they are being digested...

And I was not dissapointed by how clear cut his opinion was on the subject... In his article evidence on nut consumption and human health he goes so far as to call Dr. Esselstyn a reductionist for dissaproving the healthy fats from nuts and advocado's!

Pollan's statement about nutrition is one I took as a critique of our reductionist approach, basically we have been taught to look at eating nutrients rather than whole food.

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.

I was a bit concerned during the first part of the video as it took a rather reductionist view of nutrition.

Even those scientists you might regard as «hard - core reductionist» acknowledge a complex interplay of factors, and a vast region for further research.

We propose that studies using a reductionist philosophy to identify active components of whole foods, such as lycopene or sulforaphane, should continue, but with additional investments in research focusing on changes in dietary pattern incorporating whole foods which are safe and potentially more effective.

This is a notion that can be a somewhat reductionist checklist covering such attributes as «Can hold a pencil», «Can sit still on a chair» and «understands the word no.

They must also avoid reductionist policy fixes and focus on the hard but necessary work of, as DeVos tweeted, improving «options and outcomes for all students.»