Sentences with phrase «reductionist way»

In its glib and reductionist way, it works like a charm.

This is a very reductionist way of looking at the origins of life: one building block at a time.»

In the middle two quarters of the 20th century, a drastically reductionist way of thinking became the bottom line against which everything was measured.

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

I find we are unconsciously, and at times consciously, reductionists in the way we see one another.

It is also more congenial to modern medicine precisely because of the way it affirms the unity of mind and body — unlike a reductionist theory of mechanistic materialism or a pure spiritualism that denies the body's value.

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.

The reductionist ideas about causality that pervade science misrepresent the way things happen in the real world, argues physicist George Ellis

«Applying an artistic process to science frees you from the typically reductionist approach of analyzing one particular hypothesis and teaches you a different way of observing things.

Harry Grundfest also felt very strongly that the way to study the brain is one cell at a time, and he got me interested in to [a] reductionist approach to behavior, which is really the approach that I've taken since then.

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.

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.

In this way, Rebel in the Rye is a reductionist, unhelpful biography.

Some business schools are already taking the lead within this challenge but others are leaking far behind still teaching paradigms that educate people in reductionist, narrow - minded ways.

The credit crisis has disclosed the limitations in regular ways of restraining leverage while the reductionist, narrow view of economics is no longer equipped to suit the real world complexity that is highly dependent on risk models for determining capital needs.

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.

I claim in the article that Legend of Zelda can be a little less inventive and more formulaic in some ways; I know this is a very broad stroke and reductionist, but I feel justified in making it.

Thus, they apply the reductionist assumption at its extreme, and systematically deny the empirical evidences pointing in the opposite way.