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the belief that everything is just smaller things wearing a trenchcoat.
means the idea that complex systems are best understood by breaking them down into their simplest component parts.
from rooted in descartes and the 17th-century mechanical philosophy, which treated the universe like clockwork you could disassemble; hardened into doctrine with 19th-century physics and chemistry explaining biology one atom at a time.
physics envymany scientists secretly want to be physicists.
opposite campholism insists the whole outweighs the parts.
famous jabmore is different, physicist philip anderson countered.
still usefulcured diseases by finding the one broken gene.