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reductionist

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Its that sort of clickbaity, reductionist and divisive language that's turning gender relations in tech into such a warzone.

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Quick take

An advocate of reductionism.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

An advocate of reductionism.

adjective

Of, or relating to reductionism.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for reductionist.

noun

An advocate of reductionism.

adjective

Of, or relating to reductionism.

Example sentences

1

Its that sort of clickbaity, reductionist and divisive language that's turning gender relations in tech into such a warzone.

2

It took me some years to realize that Lamb's StratGram itself suffered from the same reductionist flaws.

3

The only thing that changes is that the non-reductionist philosophers lose and the neurobiologists, cognitive scientists, and AI researchers win.

4

Yeah, that's pretty reductionist, but it really makes you wonder why this behavior is so common.

5

It would be niave and extremely ignorant-reductionist to conclude that that would have no effect.

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From a reductionist point of view, libertarians and conservatives differ in regards to Social, Foreign, Monetary[1] (as opposed Fiscal) and Federalist policies.

7

Dude, you don't really make much sense with all that reductionist gobbledygook.

8

I have a fairly reductionist view on this, one I think is helpful, so here goes.

9

The whole concept of Soylent feels to me like a typical reductionist approach - let's mix some stuff together and all will be good.

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I agree that a reductionist approach to science has bourne a lot of fruit, historically.

11

Certainly Halliday's Systemics became as reductionist as any of the others.

12

The comment about manipulation being pure teleop is a little reductionist.

Quote examples

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Those two outcomes are vastly dissimilar - equating them because they are both "doing things you object to as a matter of conscience" is too reductionist by half.

2

People who turn off their brains and their capacity for moral/ethical calculation for no better reason that "someone signed a contract" are reductionist, simplistic and are capable of assent to monumental crimes.

3

The general, reductionist way I've seen it put and like, is that the "blue team" has been so successful in the culture war that they are now reduced to policing the battlefield and shooting the survivors.

4

The best I can express "code smell" into a reductionist statement is like so: Code smell is when a given aspect of code contradicts the general purpose, overall ethos or accepted style of the whole program itself.

Proper noun examples

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Reductionist would be to ignore the pertinent facts of the discussion.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use reductionist in a sentence?

Its that sort of clickbaity, reductionist and divisive language that's turning gender relations in tech into such a warzone.

What does reductionist mean?

An advocate of reductionism.

What part of speech is reductionist?

reductionist is commonly used as noun, adjective.