Original sentence: Advocates of this contrasting position declare that, the linear deterministic approach to nature and technology promoted a fragmented perception of reality, and a loss of the ability to foresee, to adequately evaluate, in all their complexity, global crises in ecology, civilization and education.Fragmentalism is thus a form of reductionism, which argues that the world is indeed composed of separable parts, and that it is knowable through the study of these components
Edited sentence: An example of the possible shortcomings of a fragmentalist worldview declares that, the linear deterministic approach to nature and technology promoted a fragmented perception of reality, and a loss of the ability to foresee, to adequately evaluate, in all their complexity, global crises in ecology, civilization and education.Fragmentalism is thus the metaphysical underpinning of science, which operates with the assumption that the world is indeed composed of separable parts, and that it is knowable through the study of these components