Reduction and Elimination in Philosophy and the Sciences

developing of cancer tissue in human body, underlying
pathological nature of such way of thinking about values.
Reduction in axiology leads to tyranny of one value over
the others and makes it impossible to reach the emotional,
psychical and intellectual maturity of man.
Reductionism in Axiology: the Case of Utilitarianism — Dorota Probucka
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