Wikipedia article:
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.[1]
1. See e.g. Reductionism in the Interdisciplinary
Encyclopedia of Religion and Science.
“The Website of the Interdisciplinary Encyclopedia on
Religion and Science is edited by the Advanced School
for Interdisciplinary Research (ADSIR), operating at the
Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome….”
For a reductionist Holy Cross, see yesterday’s noon post.