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date: '2024-02-07'
description: explaining complex phenomena through minimal parts, compressing reality into simpler ontological and theoretical frameworks.
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Reductionism is the relationship among theories. In a sense, it is a [[thoughts/Compression|compression]] from [[thoughts/being|becoming]] into singularity.

1. Ontology: a belief that whole of reality consists of a minimal number of parts
2. Methodology: scientific attempt to provide explanation in terms of ever-smaller entities
3. Theory: suggest newer theory does not replace/absorb older one, but reduces it to more basic terms.

## thingspace

see also: <https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WBw8dDkAWohFjWQSk/the-cluster-structure-of-thingspace>

![[thoughts/love#thingspace]]