reductionism

As the term "reductionism" is being bandied about quite a bit, I thought I would put my understanding of it and invite others to do the same. AFAIK there are two ways in which the term "reductionism" is used in philosophy: reductionism: the belief that each meaningful statement is equivalent...

In the thread Demography of Japan - Evidence of Reincarnation I showed that the demographic evolution of Japan constitutes strong evidence for demographic saturation and therefore also for reincarnation. Because of the poor quality of most posts in that thread I start here a new one...

"The estimated number of genes in the human genome has been repeatedly revised downward since the completion of the Human Genome Project; current estimates place the human genome at just under 3 billion base pairs and about 20,000–25,000 genes. A recent Science article gives a final number of...

Hey guys, Well I'm having this argument with a close friend of mine who's about to begin her 2nd year of undergraduate science. The argument is essentially about the most basic form of reductionism: I explained that physics 'comes' from mathematics, chemistry comes from physics and biology...