Opposing reduction or reductionism; describing something that works against the process of breaking down or oversimplifying.
From antireduction + -ive (adjective suffix). Appears in both chemistry (preventing reduction) and philosophy (opposing reductionism).
Holistic medicine uses antireductive logic—claiming you can't understand health by just studying individual organs in isolation—which is why systems biology revolutionized medicine by studying how organs interact.
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