Noun : The senator is given to simplism in dealing with international issues. ,to offer simplisms instead of analyses. From Dictionary.com.
By non-fundamentalist, I mean he opposes "simplism" or simple minded thinking. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference
Blaming him for everything that happened would be historical simplism. From Wordnik.com. [Castro Interviewed on Soviet Collapse, Stalin] Reference
Union would be historical simplism, because no man by himself could have created certain conditions. From Wordnik.com. [Castro Interviewed on Soviet Collapse, Stalin] Reference
Despite his descent into simplism and banality in his later work, this poem shows the brilliant talent he possessed as a young poet. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference
The economic situation is very much like that, and the ranting you hear about how it's going has major components grounded in simplism. From Wordnik.com. [Talking Our Way Out of the Great Recession] Reference
Perhaps its because rather than insight and thoughtfulness, Greenwald and his black-and-white philosophical simplism comforts those who are too lazy or too insecure to do the heavy-lifting it would require to wrap their minds around complex issues, most of which resist being corraled into highly partisan explanations. From Wordnik.com. [The "Stupid" Dialogue.] Reference
A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism. From Wordnik.com. [DB's Medical Rants] Reference
Your analysis falls into the typical simplism of those who dont understand the complexity of our HCS and tends to be trivialize it in a simple argument of Amricans being backward and caring more for their money than their country's health and so on. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
The issue of Clark’s supposed flip-flop on the war is as Josh Marshall says part of the media’s apparent embrace of “simplism as the new integrity.”. From Wordnik.com. [Hullabaloo] Reference
simplism is as simplism does. From Wordnik.com. [Hullabaloo] Reference
"But we are threatened today by a new simplism which consists in reducing everything to the war on terrorism. From Wordnik.com. [ImpeachBush] Reference
Those reformers whose schemes have nothing to recommend them but logic, and who, after having complained of the simplism, monotony, uniformity, and extreme division of labor, then propose a plurality as a SYNTHESIS, -- such inventors, I say, are judged already, and ought to be sent back to school. From Wordnik.com. [System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery] Reference
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