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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
+ | {{incomplete|More on the two entries in the comic. Especially the I/E note. Is this true generally or was it for the sound in rEductionsm like in rIductionsm? Is this a reference to the Great Vowel Shift?}} | ||
{{w|Reductionism}} is an approach that seeks to understand the world by breaking problems into simpler pieces. This approach can disregard emergent properties which appear only from the individual parts working together. | {{w|Reductionism}} is an approach that seeks to understand the world by breaking problems into simpler pieces. This approach can disregard emergent properties which appear only from the individual parts working together. | ||
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | :[The comic represents an entry in a dictionary for a word. Unlike normal comics not only capital letters are used, and thus here the capitalization of the comic is also used in the transcript. The entry is cut | + | :[The comic represents an entry in a dictionary for a word. Unlike normal comics not only capital letters are used, and thus here the capitalization of the comic is also used in the transcript. The entry is cut of through the bottom of the fourth line by the bottom of the panel, but the last line is still readable.] |
:'''REDUCTIONISM'''•''n''. 1. "R" is a letter with | :'''REDUCTIONISM'''•''n''. 1. "R" is a letter with | ||
:origins in the Egyptian hieroglyphics. "E" | :origins in the Egyptian hieroglyphics. "E" |