the practice of considering or presenting something complicated in a simple way, especially a way that is too simple

The reductivism of these models is inherently problematic for social decision making.

He was a modernist architect known for his reductivism, who stripped all decoration from his buildings. 他是一位以还原主义著称的现代派建筑师，其设计的建筑摒弃了所有装饰。