Modern science, result from the enlightenment of the 17 th century, is characterized by mechanism and reductionism. In essence, it is a manifest of ideas of external relation in science.
Modem science is based upon subject - object dualism, essentialist reductionism and causal determinism. Those are the source of "the crisis of modernity".
Dedekind refuses the reductionism which suggests to reduce number to class or the extension of conception, though he agrees with Frege that every individual number is self-subsistent object.
In view of the above, they criticize Hegel s conception of history , for they regard its ways are of " the features of diachronicity " and its of the nature of historical"reductionism " .
They propose to replace the atomism, reductionism, objectivity, determinism and quantati tive study with holism, constructionism, deobjectification, problematicism and qua litative study.
It is getting half the result with twice the effort, even no any valuable result for improving it, when study durability of concrete structures by reductionism, but not by holistic view.
Our educational system has had a dangerous predilection for reductionism—an addiction to the primary,the elementary(Frederick Turner)
Modernist philosophy has four features: mechanism, reductionism, dichotomy of subject-object and expansive rationalism.
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