[{"word":"reductionism","phonetics":[],"meanings":[{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"An approach to studying complex systems or ideas by reducing them to a set of simpler components.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"A philosophical position which holds that a complex system is nothing but the sum of its parts, and that an account of it can be reduced to accounts of individual constituents. In a reductionist framework, the phenomena that can be explained completely in terms of relations between other more fundamental phenomena, are called \"epiphenomena\".","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"},"sourceUrls":["https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/reductionism"]}]