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  1. starting page on reductionism to contrast with pluralism

    Anonymous

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    • CommentTimeNov 29th 2022

    I find this comment makes a good point in saying that pluralism is not actually the antonym to reductionism.

  3. added clarification on the difference between reductionism and pluralism/monism

    Anonymous

    diff, v3, current

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    • CommentTimeNov 29th 2022
    • (edited Nov 29th 2022)

    Currently in the entry it says about reductionism:

    This contrasts with emergentism, which says that the entire field cannot be reduced to a common foundation.

    I don’t see that “emergence” (or “emergentism”) is in contrast to reductionism. Instead it is only on a reductionist backdrop that it makes sense to speak of emergence in the first place.

    The previous line in the entry says:

    Reductionism is a philosophical position which states that all of that field can be reduced to a common foundation.

    That doesn’t seem quite the right definition of reductionism, either.

    May I ask where you are taking these statements from? (Are you the same Anonymous as in #1?)

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