Sinonim reductionism

English Thesaurus

1. the analysis of complex things into simpler constituents (noun.cognition)

hypernym	:	analysis, analytic thinking,
definition	:	the abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations (noun.cognition)

2. a theory that all complex systems can be completely understood in terms of their components (noun.cognition)

hypernym	:	theory,
definition	:	a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena (noun.cognition)