Sentences with phrase «by reductionist»

It's not that the technologists have overlooked factors like trust, intent and context — just that it's a very hard problem to solve by reductionist means.

I enjoy at times the deconstruction dialogue created by reductionist or minimalist (is this a redundant form as well?)

Holism corrects the imbalances that are caused by reductionist approaches through its emphasis on and expanded conception of science and human possibility.

Therefore, we need not feel threatened by reductionist accounts of the human person nor by the paradoxes of identity and memory that dog philosophical doctrines of immortality.

On the one side, its right to exist was questioned by those who insisted that whoever knows one religion (i.e., Christianity) knows all religions; on the other, its religio - scientific methodology was challenged by reductionist psychological and social - scientific approaches.

Not exact matches

Even though scientific experiments are yieldingnon - reductionist results, these results are achieved by reductive method.

I don't mean to sound the doomsday alarm with no ray of hope, because I know there are many great examples like the Christian Community Development Association, The Amos Project, and many others who are moving past reductionist and stereotypical views of one another to build communities where we see and are seen by one another.

The problem was not secularization but reductionist interpretation of reality by ideologies of closed secularism that brought about the problem.

We can postpone the fateful day by insisting that metaphysically, «form» is to do with something outside the «reductionist» methodology ofscience, but surely it would be better to tread the path of finding a synthesis between science and philosophy so that the two areas of knowledge are genuinely seen in practice to be expressions of the one Wisdom of God.

Tragically, a nominalistic and reductionist philosophy of science has filled the gap left by the absence of a respectful, holistic Catholic interpretation.

[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.

For even the apparent success of the reductionist hypothesis in certain areas does not by any means imply the practicability of a «constructionist» one — to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.

This reductionist point of view, which seeks knowledge by analysis, almost inevitably leads its proponents to assume, quite unwarrantably, that all that is then required is to work out the consequences of these laws by the prosecution of what is called «extensive science,» whereupon all truth will be revealed!

The Tablet would like smaller numbers to come, one by one, in a way which provides the opportunity to acclimatise them into the kind of reductionist belief - system they favour.

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).

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.

To explain the second strategy, let us recall the display of the reductionist order of the sciences along the «Comtean ladder,» which arranges the forms of life and the corresponding specialized disciplines in an ascending series of rungs starting with physics at the base, followed by chemistry, biology, psychology, sociology and, depending on one's inclination, history and religion.

This can be partially explained by the fact that democracy deals with how power is achieved while its «efficiency» (QoG in this answer's reductionist model) deals with how power is exercised.

That is, knowledge about the more than two - millennia - old Eastern tradition of investigating the mind from the inside, from an interior, subjective point of view, and the much more recent insights provided by empirical Western ways to probe the brain and its behavior using a third - person, reductionist framework.

This reductionist approach to medical science dictated that complex systems can be understood only by first reducing them into the study of their smallest, individual, analyzable parts.

By using a systems biology approach, researchers deliberately move away from the classic reductionist manner of looking at molecules in isolation to study biological systems in their entirety.

Specifically, the genome - wide systems biology approaches to dissect the epigenetic processes that become abnormal when aggressive prostate cancer and melanoma initiates, rather than the reductionist «gene - by - gene» classical approaches, are urgently necessary.

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!

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've been pointing at how animal companionship in videogames tends to be informed by an utilitarian and reductionist logic: Pokemon are both weapons and collectibles, existing in a fictional world designed to naturalize this instrumental relationship, Neko Atsume is an addicting conditioning device dispensing immaterial cuteness for your time and money; virtual pets are nothing but a few lightly dressed variables banking on our tendency to attribute feelings and thought to artificial entities, the Tamagochi effect.

Her methods aim to challenge the conventions of uniform engineering by hacking the hidden mechanics and functions of consumer products to reveal the reductionist strategies used by manufacturers today.

Also beginning in the late eighties on the West Coast of the US, the Wildstyle - reductionist Joker was one of the first graffiti artists to paint purely geometric abstractions and pushed for its acceptance within the graffiti community by founding the Transcend Collective in 1991 with She1, who was an abstract writer in the UK.

That Held got sick of flatness and the 1960's prevailing reductionist orthodoxy, as represented by Frank Stella and championed by the heirs of Clement Greenberg's theorizing, is not surprising.

I am kind of a reductionist empiricist by nature so I don't see anything wrong w / playing around w / oceanic fertilization, under the assumption that it can't go * too * bad * too * quickly.

Most research related to grazing management, and thus carbon sequestration potential, on rangelands cited by Briske et al. [1,2,3] has been short - term and has examined the issue from a reductionist viewpoint that ignores the critical influences of scale, and does not use adaptive multi-paddock grazing to achieve sound animal production, resource improvement, and socio - economic goals under constantly varying conditions on rangelands [4].

This may have some explanatory power, but it is a very reductionist explanation — quickly leading to seeing AGW as concocted by «green influence» and groupthink, and climate skepticism by think - tanks and a few fringe scientists wanting the quick road to attention.

If you mean that human caused climate change should have been better addressed by WG1, I think societies impact on climate is implicit in the physics, at least in terms of CO2 and biome impacts, and WG1 was intended to provide an understanding of the physical science, which I don't find reductionist.

The respondents» counter argument (dubbed a «reductionist fallacy» by the appellants) was that nought, plus nought, plus nought, still equalled nought.