Look up: holism

1. Holism
   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.
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2. Holism
   School of thought which suggests that activities or systems should be studied as a whole because they show emergent properties which cannot be predicted by the study of the behaviour of individual components.
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3. holism
   In philosophy, the concept that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. ...
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4. holism
   1. The principle that an organism, or one of its actions, is not equal to merely the sum of its parts but must be perceived or studied as a whole. ... 2. The approach to the study of a psychological phenomenon through the analysis of a phenomenon as a complete entity in itself. ... Compare: atomism....
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5. holism
   holistic theory noun 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...
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6. holism
   (from the article `physical science, principles of`) ...systematic procedure he knows, and it is one that has yielded virtually the whole harvest of scientific inquiry. What is set up as a contrast to ... Atomism is in essence an analytical doctrine. It regards observable forms in nature not as intrinsic wholes but as aggregates. In con...
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7. holism
   Type: Term Pronunciation: hō′lizm Definitions: 1. The principle that an organism, or one of its actions, is not equal to merely the sum of its parts but must be perceived or studied as a whole. 2. The approach to the study of a psychological phenomenon through the analysis of a phenomenon as a complete entity in itself.  ...
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8. Holism
   See Emergent Evolutionism.
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9. holism
   In philosophy, the concept that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts
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10. Holism
    `Holism` (from holos, a Greek word meaning all, whole, entire, total) is the idea that all the properties of a given system (physical, biological, chemical, social, economic, mental, linguistic, etc.) cannot be determined or explained by its component parts alone. ...
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