Tim_Tyler comments on Reductionism - Less Wrong
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I always found Hofstadter's take on the issue illuminating.
Disappointingly, dictionaries and encyclopaedias today seem to have defined reductionism and holism away from Hofstadter's usage - to the detriment of both of the terms involved.