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A reductionist is someone who explains a thing as ‘really just’ its simple parts. The same word is an adjective: a reductionist view, a reductionist argument. Like , it often carries a little — the speaker thinks the person has made the thing too small and too thin. You will meet it in university essays and reviews, not in everyday chat. In science it can be fairly neutral (‘a reductionist account of chemistry’); in the humanities it often means ‘too simple, and proud of it’. is the belief; a reductionist is the person, or the kind of explanation.
化約論者；化約論的
組成reduction + -ist (‘a person who believes in this, or a style of it’).
同家族的字
- reductionthe noun this is built from
- reductionismthe belief or method this person follows
- reducethe verb at the root
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
reductionistadj
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Of, or relating to reductionism.
reductionistnoun
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An advocate of reductionism.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。