simplicist

Heirs to the "simplicist" spirit of theJacobins, believing, like them, that societies can be remade fromtop to bottom by the laws, and persuaded that the Empire had onlyinterrupted the task of revolution, they wished to resume it.

The Psychology of Revolution 1913

What terrifies me about this particular author is the way he keeps making confident simplicist predictions about situations of the utmost complexity.

Dignity 2009

The interpenetration of the causal order in experience and memory refutes the simplicist schemes of evolution but does not dispose of the complex problem of the evolution of art and literature.

EVOLUTION OF LITERATURE REN 1968

Many of us think that the materialistic and simplicist method has proved a complete failure, and that the time has come to strike out on entirely different lines.

Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

Both showed the same subconscious craving for simplicist conceptions -- the transcendentalists clung fast to the notion of the absolute unity of type, of the ideal existence of the "one animal," and the evolutionists did precisely the same thing when they blindly and instinctively accepted the doctrine of the monophyletic descent of all animals from one primeval form.

Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

It is easy to account for the structural resemblance of the members of a classificatory group, by the assumption that they are all descended from a common ancestral form; it is easy to postulate any number of hypothetical generalised types; but in the absence of positive evidence, such simplicist explanations must always remain doubtful.

Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

He tries to steer a course midway between the simplicist conceptions of the materialists and the "metaphysics" of the neo-vitalist school, which the experimental study of development and regeneration soon brought into being.

Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

'magician' written differently, is that it is a simplicist theory.

Recent Developments in European Thought Various

"drive" by a vast propagandist organization that the army of men and women of one idea, apostles of simplicist solutions, will flock into the ranks of the propagandists.

Catholic Problems in Western Canada George Thomas Daly 1914