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▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Explanations – 6. There is a methodological reductionism like Descartes mythological break down of a problem to understand the essential parts and than to rearranges the parts back into their organic wholes. 7. We use this method in understand and application of mathematics and certain problems in life. 8. There is another type of reductionism which we call ontological reductionism where we reduce all problems and objects to atoms and chemistry only. 9. Here everything can and must be explained in terms of and by physics and chemistry