Sentences with phrase «reductionist method»

In this chapter, at any rate, I have argued that reductionist methods contradict the most basic elements of simple logic.

In contrast to reductionist methods that study elements of a system in isolation, the Gladstone Center for Systems and Therapeutics investigates systems holistically.

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

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.

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).

«In science, the discipline and methods are such that design - more precisely, formal and final causes in natural beings - is purposefully excluded from its reductionist conception of nature.

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.

«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.

A new critical review of yoga therapy in health care calls for eliminating postures and using reductionist research methods.

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.

Simple climate cause and effect using reductionist techniques or climate as a coupled non-linear system using the new methods of complexity science.

If anyone wants to accuse me of taking a «reductionist» approach to the term «business method», I'll plead guilty.