Sentences with phrase «so reductionist»

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

One university administrator apologized that Hedges was «so reductionist and offensive,»....

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The term Reductionist is the accurate term for 95 % of so called skeptics.

But if reductionism is the enemy, and so lethal, what are we to make of the anti-religious polemic of the reductionist trinity of Marx, Freud, and Darwin?

One of the ironies of biblical literalism is that it shares so largely in the reductionist and literalist spirit of the age.

So we are delivered from the «imitation of Jesus» type of theology and from that kind of reductionist thinking which interpreted Christianity as «following a great prophet» and nothing more.

We can postpone the fateful day by insisting that metaphysically, «form» is to do with something outside the «reductionist» methodology ofscience, but surely it would be better to tread the path of finding a synthesis between science and philosophy so that the two areas of knowledge are genuinely seen in practice to be expressions of the one Wisdom of God.

Others are less sanguine about the capacity of reductionist physics to so explain the order of nature.

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.

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.

He hopes that Labour will be lured into becoming their reductionist champion, so forfeiting the right to speak for aspirational voters.

Computer simulation is similar, it's reductionist; you've got these parts, you want to see how they interact, so you build a model and compare it to the real world.

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

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!

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.

While focusing the chorus around such an unappealing word is probably the point, it feels like a blase and reductionist assertion that the world is fucked anyway, so we should all be having more sex, because «everything is sex, except sex, which is power.»

The reason it became reductionist is because education reform is complex and has a lot of ground to cover, so people thought they'd focus on a few things and get that moving and then figure out the rest later.

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.

So teachers get a very distorted, reductionist version — Give students complex texts and make them close read and then everything will be fine.

There are some folks who are so rigid, however, such little tin soldiers, that they can only see behavior from a reductionist viewpoint and entirely miss the intuitive Gestalt of animal learning which reveal the higher order systems in action.

I am kind of a reductionist empiricist by nature so I don't see anything wrong w / playing around w / oceanic fertilization, under the assumption that it can't go * too * bad * too * quickly.

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.

So for me, this comment highlights the pitfalls of a narrow, reductionist focus around tobacco, alcohol etc..