Sentences with phrase «reductionist tendencies»

I don't think that the future is in blogs and their reductionist tendencies but in efforts to develop principles and analyses that illuminate, guide and direct.

The problem is not with «blogs» and personal publishing technologies per se, but with the reductionist tendencies of certain kinds of people (bloggers or not)-- particularly people who see the enormous potential of so - called «semantic web» technologies, but have little «wisdom» in the particular domain.

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.

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The tendency of most Western scientists is to be reductionist, looking for the key to existence in the lowest common components of matter / energy.

-- Functional medicine doctor Frank Lipman, MD, on our tendency to use reductionist language when talking about the microbiome

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.

Most of these groups and tendencies continued to pursue a reductionist agenda, in order to purge art of superfluous rhetoric and allusion, while incorporating a carefully planned, psychological use of color.