Category
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reductionism
thumb|René Descartes, in De homine (1662), claimed that non-human animals could be explained reductively as automata; meaning essentially as more mechanically complex versions of this [[Digesting Duck.]]
technological determinism
theory holding that social progress is shaped by technological progress
Hitchens' razor
Epistemological razor regarding the burden of proof
methodological individualism
concept in political and social sciences
logical atomism
philosophical view expounded by Bertrand Russell
type physicalism
in the philosophy of mind, a physicalist theory asserting that mental events can be grouped into types, and can then be correlated with types of physical events in the brain
separation of concerns
solution approach where the problem is broken down into parts that can be solved independently of each other, by separating the what from the how
mechanism
belief that natural wholes are composed of parts lacking any intrinsic relationship to each other

Special sciences
Sciences other than fundamental physics