Originally posted by Jichard
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In the sciences, application of methodological reductionism attempts explanation of entire systems in terms of their individual, constituent parts and their interactions. Thomas Nagel speaks of psychophysical reductionism (the attempted reduction of psychological phenomena to physics and chemistry), as do others and physico-chemical reductionism (the attempted reduction of biology to physics and chemistry), again as do others.[6] In a very simplified and sometimes contested form, such reductionism is said to imply that a system is nothing but the sum of its parts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reducti...e_note-Nagel-6
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/re...n-biology/#4.2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reducti...e_note-Nagel-6
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/re...n-biology/#4.2
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