Sentences with phrase «reductionist argument»

Despite being a reductionist argument, I think it comes down to how men see male relationships versus female relationships.

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.

Above all, Rossano sees religion primarily in terms of relationships, which apparently explains why it persists even in the face of today's atheistic reductionist arguments.

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[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.

Argument: Reductionist science may be over, but a new kind of emergent science is just beginning.

The purpose of this perspective, then, is to provide a logical argument for a new approach to classifying human disease that both appreciates the uses and limits of reductionism and incorporates the tenets of the non ‐ reductionist approach of complex systems analysis.

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