Sentences with phrase «not reductionist»

The book is covering his career to date, places his famous square «white» paintings with lesser - known but increasingly exhibited works, in order to show that he is not a reductionist, but in fact a restless experimenter. - Dimitris Lempesis

That's not a reductionist approach..

And the various levels of science from physics through biology and zoology to psychology are surely enough to show that science is not reductionist.

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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.

In short, they are not true reductionists because they don't go all the way down to the most basic explanations of reality.

These men were not «reductionists,» in the sense that they were seeking to lower the claims of the gospel.

The effect in English «Latin Mass circles», however, isn't the most important issue on which we need to focus, though I agree that it does show that there is something remarkably «mean - spirited» in the air, a fact which also emerged strongly in widespread attempts to frustrate the motu proprio; it also shows that although that many - faced and mysterious entity we tend simply to call «Rome» can sometimes be relied on to defend us from reductionist tendencies in the English and Welsh Church, it is also the case that all too often it can't.

I do not want to give the impression that the majority of scientists hold to this reductionist view.

«This book is for everybody who can't do the denial, reductionist route which says «you are just a finely tuned collection of atoms and this whole thing is just a material accident»,» Bell says.

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.

«mechanist», «reductionist», «godless»: we shouldn't let others teach us their vocabulary and their definitions.

Yet the idea that the capacities of mind are naturally emergent from the potentialities implicit in the creation from the beginning need not be reductionist.

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

I would offer only one friendly amendment: The problem is not with psychology per se, but with the reductionist psychology which says man is just stuff and conscience is just a euphemism for inhibitions pumped in from outside.

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

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.

However, the two views are not incompatible: in order for the reductionist conception to make sense at all, the «laws governing parts» must include implicit reference to the behavior of these parts with respect to any complex into which the parts may enter.

But, look into the theology, don't debase it with reductionist thinking.

One university administrator apologized that Hedges was «so reductionist and offensive,» promising that she wouldn't have invited him had she known.

It is precisely Miranda's kind of one - sided, reductionist approach that offers comfortable North Americans a plausible excuse for ignoring the radical biblical Word that seeking justice for the poor is inseparable from — even though it is not identical with — knowing Jahweh.

Affirming a Platonic formal value does certainly undermine reductionist materialism, but it is not itself evidence of a realm in which exists the transcendent Creator.

Of course she could not have realized at that time fifty years ago that some specialized medical technologies could be so fully integrated with the materialistic - mechanical reductionist view of human being and with the profit - consumerist motives that it would be impossible to convert them to the holistic view of human personhood or to be made an appropriate tool for promoting health of poor communities.

But it confuses «can not» with «has not yet been grasped in the current state of our knowledge», often through an unwitting empathy with atheistic, reductionist philosophy of modern science.

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.

He focuses upon the Pope's emphasis, which we have drawn out before in this column, that the influential depiction of reason through a reductionist philosophy of science denies reference to a transcendent organiser and can not found itself.

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.

For the reductionist can always argue that, while it may be good heuristics to develop concepts peculiarly fitted to each of the rungs (if they are not already available in ordinary language), these will be necessarily anthropomorphic and their sole function in the scientific enterprise is to invite reduction.

These early findings, of course, are not meant to be reductionist, deterministic, or politically pigeonhole one group or the other, nor are they fixed.

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?

Second, these regulatory determinants may not always be obvious from reductionist principles, and, thus, the analysis provides unique insight into disease mechanism and potential therapeutic targets.

I'm a member of the National Academy and that's all based on reductionist biology, I'm not going to change my strategy.»

Reductionist biology — examining individual brain parts, neural circuits and molecules — has brought us a long way, but it alone can not explain the workings of the human brain, an information processor within our skull that is perhaps unparalleled anywhere in the universe.

I think at times what we envision to be «wellness» is a reductionist, oppressive portrayal that can actually create shame and isolation in unknowing consumers, and thus it's important to flush out the many facets of wellness that don't look like Warrior II's and green juice.

So it wasn't just a health coach working with a conventional kind of reductionist medical team.

Proving that a «calorie» isn't just some reductionist measure of energy.

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.

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!

The main problem with this reductionist thinking is that research still hasn't fully understood what exactly it is that whole foods provide on a nutritional level beyond just their nutrient elements.

We have to be careful not to make the reductionist mistake, to point out single nutrients, and label single nutrients good, bad, healthy, not healthy.

We can pull individual elements out of plant foods and prove they're toxic — refined starches, sugars, goitrogenic compounds, tannins, selenium, etc... and yet point that out to a PB advocate and they'll scream about how that isn't «whole food», that it's reductionist... and yet those same PB advocates rely on data from isolated compounds in animal foods.

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.

He also critically debunked the glycoalkaloid issue and I really think Dr G NEEDS to update his take on taters because the proof of harm is not there and creates judgmental concerns on the reductionist approach it favors.

But that's a pretty reductionist view, because it doesn't take into account all of the factors that influence how many calories we eat each day.

While people are taking the reductionist approach to issue I am taking the traditional approach (of countries of color) and a meat heavy diet was not part of it,

«You can't study wholistic phenomena solely through reductionist modes of inquiry without sacrificing reality, and truth, in the process».

Looking at this little molecule for a few moments may be reductionist, but understanding how a food provides its benefits not only helps us better understand how to produce, prepare, and use that food, but also helps us identify other foods that may offer similar benefits.

Most important, while the standards describe teaching as a set of highly complex tasks, much of what currently passes for teacher testing follows a reductionist model — looking not so much at what's important but at what's easy to measure.

When I wrote and submitted the copy, the editor at the first publication tore it apart in the most culturally appalling way possible, and when I told him all his reductionist edits didn't make sense since I was the cultural expert, I got the lengthiest mansplaining email of my life from him.