What is the opposite of reductionist?
People also ask, what is non reductionism?
Non-reductionism is the stance that explanations can be complete at their own level and need not be justified by other levels of explanation (such as biology, or physics etc.).
Correspondingly, what is a reductionist approach?
Reductionism is an approach to understanding the nature of complex things by reducing them to the interactions of their parts, or to simpler or more fundamental things. Emergentism (or Emergence), which claims that complex systems and patterns arise (emerge) out of a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions.
Examples of Reductionism in Biology Looking closely at DNA is a great example of reductionism. The molecule contains genes that code for physical and behavioral expressions of an organism. Another common example of reductionism in biology is the concept of development.