reductionism

philosophical view explaining systems in terms of smaller parts
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reductionism

Summary

reductionism is a philosophical concept[1]. reductionism draws 164 Wikipedia views per month (philosophical_concept category, ranking #80 of 256).[2]

Key Facts

  • reductionism's instance of is recorded as philosophical concept[3].
  • reductionism's instance of is recorded as theory[4].
  • reductionism's GND ID is recorded as 4135105-8[5].
  • reductionism's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85112145[6].
  • reductionism's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11955165z[7].
  • reductionism's IdRef ID is recorded as 027531147[8].
  • reductionism's subclass of is recorded as simplism[9].
  • reductionism's subclass of is recorded as parsimony[10].
  • reductionism's part of is recorded as psychological terminology[11].
  • reductionism's Commons category is recorded as Reductionism[12].
  • reductionism's said to be the same as is recorded as merism[13].
  • reductionism's opposite of is recorded as holism[14].
  • reductionism's has part is recorded as reductionism in physics[15].
  • reductionism's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0d3pl[16].
  • reductionism's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph125051[17].
  • reductionism's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Reductionism[18].
  • reductionism's described at URL is recorded as https://www.enciclopedia.cat/search/terms/472183/reduccionisme[19].
  • reductionism's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0137739[20].
  • reductionism's described by source is recorded as Lean Logic[21].
  • reductionism's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/reductionism[22].
  • reductionism's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/methodological-reductionism[23].
  • reductionism's FAST ID is recorded as 1092307[24].
  • reductionism's YSO ID is recorded as 4430[25].
  • reductionism's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 3503132[26].
  • reductionism's Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ID is recorded as scientific-reduction[27].

Body

Geography

reductionism's part of is recorded as psychological terminology[11].

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include philosophical concept[3] and theory[4].

Why It Matters

reductionism draws 164 Wikipedia views per month (philosophical_concept category, ranking #80 of 256).[2] reductionism has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] reductionism is known by 29 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . enciclopedia.cat. enciclopedia.cat. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . SUDOC. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . enciclopedia.cat. Retrieved . enciclopedia.cat. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . Faceted Application of Subject Terminology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . YSO-Wikidata mapping project. wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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