Epistemological foundations of reductionism are representationism and theory-dominant viewpoint of science, which suggest essentialist outsideontology and constitutive entity realism metaphysically.

• 还原论的认识论基础是表征主义和理论优位的科学观,其形而上学暗示是本质主义的外在存在论和构成性的实体实在论。