reductionist
noun/rɪˈdʌkʃənɪst/
/rɪˈdʌkʃənɪst/
(formal, often disapproving)- a person who believes that complicated things can be explained by considering them as a combination of simple parts
- He was a reductionist who believed that everything could be explained in materialistic terms.
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