1) Experimental music genre 2) Theory
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Reductionism is 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. This can be said of objects, phenomena, explanation, theories, and meanings. Reductionism strongly reflects a certain perspective on causality. In a reducti...
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[music] Reductionism is a form of improvised music that developed towards the end of the 20th century. The centres of the music include Berlin, London, Tokyo and Vienna. The key characteristics of the music include microtonality, extended techniques, very soft and quiet dynamics, silence, and unconventional sounds and timbres. Some of the l...
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belief that complex phenomena are reducible to simple ones
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in philosophy, a view that asserts that entities of a given kind are collections or combinations of entities of a simpler or more basic kind or that ... [9 related articles]
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The idea that nature can be understood by taking it apart. In other words, knowing the lowest-level details of how things work (at, say, the level of subatomic physics) reveals how higher-level phenomena come about. This is a bottom-up way of looking at the universe, and is the exact opposite of hol...
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The idea that nature can be understood by dissection. In other words, knowing the lowest-level details of how things work (at, say, the level of subatomic physics) reveals how higher-level phenomena come about. This is a bottom-up way of looking at the universe, and is the exact opposite of holism.
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[See firstly explanatory gap.] A philosophical doctrine predicated upon the assertion that complex sociocultural and psychological phenomena can ultimately be explained in terms of underlying chemical or physiological processes [and far from universally supported].
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The doctrine that things can be best explained by analysing them into their component parts.
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A scientific procedure which reduces the complexity of a system to simpler and more manageable components with the objective of isolating a single component to control it or eliminate all the factors except the one that influences it. The basic assumption is that the response of the component to variations in its influencing factor is representativ...
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The doctrine that complex systems can be completely understood in terms of its simplest parts. For example, an organism is to be completely understood in terms of its genes, a society in terms of its individuals, and so on.
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a number of related, contentious theories that hold, very roughly, that the nature of complex things can always be reduced to (be explained by) simpler or more fundamental things. This is said of objects, phenomena, explanations, theories, and meanings. In short, it is philosophical materialism taken to its logical consequences.
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n] - a theory that all complex systems can be completely understood in terms of their components 2. [n] - the analysis of complex things into simpler constituents
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