出典:Wikipedia
出典:『Wikipedia』 (2010/03/11 01:38 UTC 版)
Fragmentalism is a term used to describe metaphysical positions such as philosophical realism, which hold that the world consists of individual and independent objects. The term fragmentalism is frequently used in a pejorative sense to describe reductionism, which is an argument that the world is indeed composed of separable parts, and that it is knowable through the study of these components. Fragmentalism has also been defined as the notion that knowledge is a growing collection of substantiated facts or "nuggets of truth." Anti-realists use the term fragmentalism in arguments that the world does not exist of separable entities, instead consisting of wholes. For example, advocates of this position declare that: