LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY
REDUCTIONISM AND HOLISM
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Reductionist
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Holistic
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A low level explanation
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A middle level explanation
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A high level explanation
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Detailed explanation-1: -Experimental Reductionism is where a complex behaviour is reduced to a single (isolated) variable for the purpose of testing.
Detailed explanation-2: -Reductionists are those who take one theory or phenomenon to be reducible to some other theory or phenomenon. For example, a reductionist regarding mathematics might take any given mathematical theory to be reducible to logic or set theory.
Detailed explanation-3: -Most of the research works in process engineering are based on a reductionist approach, which consists of understanding the fundamental phenomenon. Analyzing a system by focusing on one element moves away from the overall understanding of this system. Thus, focusing on parts takes away from a global vision.