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holism::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | holistic theory |
| Type of | theory |
| Derivation | holistic |
holism holds that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
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Used in this context, holism tends to imply an all-inclusive design perspective.
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W. V. Quine expounded this argument in detail, calling it confirmation holism.
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This inevitable holism, according to Duhem, renders crucial experiments impossible.
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The question then arises of the possibility of reconciling externalism with holism.
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In this sense, at least some of Mach principles are related to philosophical holism.
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These new approaches to science included holism, organicism, and emergent evolution.
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However, Duhem's holism is much more restricted and limited than Quine's.
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Epistemological and confirmation holism are mainstream ideas in contemporary philosophy.
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The Gaia hypothesis is an example of holism applied in ecological theory.
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- The theory that the parts of any whole cannot exist and cannot be understood except in their relation to the whole; "holism holds that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts"; "holistic theory has been applied to ecology and language and mental states"
- Holism (from Greek u1F45u03BBu03BFu03C2 holos "all, whole, entire") is the idea that systems (physical, biological, chemical, social, economic, mental, linguistic, etc.) and their properties should be viewed as wholes, not as collections of parts. This often includes the view that systems function as wholes and that their functioning cannot be fully understood solely in terms of their component parts.
- Historically, addiction has been defined with regard solely to psychoactive substances (for example alcohol, tobacco and other drugs) which cross the blood-brain barrier once ingested, temporarily altering the chemical milieu of the brain.
- Holu00EDu010D (until 1946 "Holiu010D", German: Weiu00DFkirchen (an der March) / Holitsch, Hungarian: Holics) is a town in western Slovakia.
- The philosophical view that no complex entity can be considered to be only the sum of its parts; as a principle of anthropology, the assumption that any given aspect of human life is to be studied with an eye to its relation to other aspects of human life.
- The idea that ``the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.'' Holism is credible on the basis of emergence alone, since reductionism and bottom-up descriptions of nature often fail to predict complex higher-level patterns. See also top-down.
- Belief that people are more than the sum of their parts; that body, mind, emotion and spirit function as one unit, affecting and controlling the parts in dynamic interaction with one another; thus, conscious and unconscious processes are equally important.
- A perspective that views phenomena in terms of their properties as wholes.
- The notion that the universe and especially living nature is most usefully seen in terms of interacting wholes that are more than the mere sum of what makes them up. Holism also views these "parts" as smaller wholes within wholes. ...
