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"In this office, I have to be a rational reductionist," he explained.

"Then there are people who are, in principle, reductionists," she said.

To call oneself a reductionist will sound, in some circles, a bit like admitting to eating babies.

The Internet offered new opportunities for communication by immigration reductionists, as it has with countless other movements.

Good reductionists require only that we manage without skyhooks.

He was a reductionist who believed that all the relationships he investigated could be explained in materialistic terms.

The article is a bit simplified and can come across as reductionist; it's tricky to communicate nuances of such a complicated issue in 550 words.

Immigration reductionists differ on the ideal level of immigration they would like to see into the United States.

Greedy reductionists mistakenly ignore the cranes that enable us to transcend our genes.

In that sense, we're all born reductionists, whose philosophy holds that anything can be explained by breaking it into its component parts.

This notion of poets - from wherever they hail - writing only, or primarily, to impress women is more than a tad reductionist.

Hume was no mathematical reductionist, like Hobbes.

To express disapproval of addiction would, in the harm reductionists' view, reinforce society's intolerance of drug addicts.

Nowadays physicists - those coldblooded reductionists - are telling a more poetic but no less mathematically rigorous tale.

Yanni, with flowing brown hair and dressed in spotlight-stealing white, was a gaudy reductionist.

The USS3P membership contained many immigration reductionists of the time.

Touchstone is a rancid reductionist.

"Reductionists!"

Mr. Dawkins is often portrayed as the village reductionist, the man who thinks there is nothing to life but selfish genes.

(One, untestable, assumption which most reductionists would make is that conscious experiences cannot precede the neural events underlying them.)

"We are not reductionists," said Jomills H. Braddock, another of the center's senior sociologists.

(A dualist who is an ontological reductionist would presumably believe that everything is reducible to one of two substances.)

However, reductionists (perhaps the most recent examples being Bechtel and Mundale) reply that this is simply not empirically plausible.

Illegal immigration, principally from across the United States-Mexico border, is the more pressing concern for most immigration reductionists.

Like many biological reductionists, Dennett is sure that he is not a biological reductionist.

To use the term common in the literature, they were 'reductionist' accounts.

"Reductionist" theories explain "the behavior of parts"--they seek to explain international outcomes solely through the behavior of units, leaving aside the effect their environment may have.

Parfit concedes that his theories rarely conflict with rival Reductionist theories in everyday life, and that the two are only brought to blows by the introduction of extraordinary examples.

The general principle of holism, concisely summarized by Aristotle in the Metaphysics by: "The whole is more than the sum of its parts", still applies to differentiate Holism used in Chi Nei Tsang from the conventional Reductionist Determinism ruling conventional medical science.