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A COMPROMISE BETWEEN REDUCTIONISM AND NON-REDUCTIONISM [PDF]

Worldviews, Science and Us, 2007
This paper investigates the seeming incompatibility of reductionism and non-reductionism in the context of complexity sciences. I review algorithmic information theory for this purpose. I offer two physical metaphors to form a better understanding of algorithmic complexity, and I briefly discuss its advantages, shortcomings and applications.
Özkural, Eray, Özkural, E.
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Time Sensitivity and Acceptance of Testimony [PDF]

Organon F, 2020
Time sensitivity seems to affect our intuitive evaluation of the reasonable risk of fallibility in testimonies. All things being equal, we tend to be less demanding in accepting time sensitive testimonies as opposed to time insensitive testimonies.
Nader Alsamaani
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Discussion on the Self in "Milindapañha" on Chariot: New Translation and Comments

RUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2021
Introduction A good example of emergentism - interpreted by M. Siderits [1] as - Buddhist reductionism) is an excerpt from the dialogue between King Milinda[4] and the monk Nāgasena[5] about the self, which is part of the text close to the Abhidhamma ...
Lev I. Titlin
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Methodological Individualism and Reductionism

, 2023
This chapter analyzes the relationship between methodological individualism (MI) and reductionism. While the latter term is mainly used in reference to MI with a negative meaning, i.e.
Di Iorio, F.
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Theoretical Reflections on Reductionism and Systemic Research Issues: Dark Systems and Systemic Domains

Systems, 2023
In this article, we explore some theoretical issues related to reductionism and systems. Fundamentally, reductionism neglects that a system can acquire properties.
Gianfranco Minati
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Water as a hybrid: an analytical structure based on a hydrosocial approach

Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente, 2023
The reductionism promoted by modernity enabled a common sense as to what water was to be molded in the discrete form of H2O. Questioning that unique conception reproduced in studies of water resources and their governance, to the detriment of their ...
Hugo Kamiya Tsutsui, Vanessa Lucena Empinotti   +1 more
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So what do we really mean when we say that systems biology is holistic? [PDF]

, 2010
Background: An old debate has undergone a resurgence in systems biology: that of reductionism versus holism. At least 35 articles in the systems biology literature since 2003 have touched on this issue.
Gatherer, Derek, Derek Gatherer
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Organicism and Reductionism in Cancer Research: Towards a Systemic Approach [PDF]

, 2007
In recent cancer research, strong and apparently conflicting epistemological stances have been advocated by different research teams in a mist of an ever-growing body of knowledge ignited by ever-more perplexing and non-conclusive experimental facts: in ...
Malaterre, Christophe, Christophe Malaterre   +1 more
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Michael Gazzaniga’s Neuro-cognitive Antireductionism and the Challenge of Neo-mechanistic Reduction

Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, 2018
Michael Gazzaniga, a prominent cognitive neuroscientist, has argued against reductionist accounts of cognition. Instead, Gazzaniga defends a form of non-reductive physicalism: epistemological neuro-cognitive non-reductionism and ontological monist ...
Diego Azevedo Leite
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Origins of Japanese archaic poetry: Japanese long song (nagauta / chōka)

Японские исследования, 2023
The presented article is devoted, on the one hand, to the general problem of the literary process in an archaic society on the example of the genesis of waka poetry; on the other hand, it directly refers to the archaism of the so-called long song ...
A. V. Suslov
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