reductiveness
Making things simplistic
Reductiveness is the quality of oversimplifying something complex, stripping away nuance or essential distinctions.
A reductive argument ignores important factors; reductiveness names that tendency as a characteristic: The reductiveness of the analysis frustrated scholars who had spent years on the subject.
The term usually carries criticism—suggesting intellectual laziness or distortion.
Stripping complexity unfairly
- simplismTendency to oversimplify issues
- stereotypingOversimplified group-based judgments
- pigeonholingAssigning to narrow categories
- caricatureExaggerated comic depiction
dismissiveness · trivialization · belittlement · superficiality · narrow-mindedness · conflation · homogenization · flattening
Explaining wholes through parts
- physicalismAll is matter
- materialismPrioritizing goods over spirit
- determinismDoctrine of causal necessity
- mechanismMeans by which something operates
scientism · monism · naturalism · parsimony · Occam's razor · essentialism · positivism · empiricism
Distilling to essential qualities
- simplificationMaking something less complex
- distillationPurification via vaporization
- condensationVapor turning to liquid
- schematizationCreating simplified structural representations
modeling · operationalization · quantification · normalization · aggregation · approximation · idealization · formalization
Lack of sophistication
- oversimplicityExcessive lack of nuance
- shallownessLack of depth
- inadequacyState of being insufficient
- impoverishmentState of extreme deprivation
barrenness · thinness · incompleteness · coarseness · roughness · sketchiness · perfunctoriness · insufficiency
oversimplification
Stripping complexity unfairly
- simplismTendency to oversimplify issues
- stereotypingOversimplified group-based judgments
- pigeonholingAssigning to narrow categories
caricature · dismissiveness · trivialization · belittlement · superficiality · narrow-mindedness · conflation · homogenization · flattening · decontextualization
reductionism
Explaining wholes through parts
- physicalismAll is matter
- materialismPrioritizing goods over spirit
- determinismDoctrine of causal necessity
mechanism · scientism · monism · naturalism · parsimony · Occam's razor · essentialism · positivism · empiricism · atomism
abstraction
Distilling to essential qualities
- simplificationMaking something less complex
- distillationPurification via vaporization
- condensationVapor turning to liquid
schematization · modeling · operationalization · quantification · normalization · aggregation · approximation · idealization · formalization · systematization
crudeness
Lack of sophistication
- oversimplicityExcessive lack of nuance
- shallownessLack of depth
- inadequacyState of being insufficient
impoverishment · barrenness · thinness · incompleteness · coarseness · roughness · sketchiness · perfunctoriness · insufficiency · poverty
reductivenessthoroughness
Attention to every detail
comprehensiveness · exhaustiveness · nuance · complexity · richness
reductivenesssystems thinking
Analyzing interconnected wholes
synthesis · holism · contextualism · contextualization · gestalt
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