Holism
Holism Holism (from ολoς, a Greek word meaning all ... of its component parts alone. According to holism, in other words, it is the system ... the Oxford English Dictionary, Jan Smuts defined holism as "The tendency in nature to form ... sum of the parts through creative evolution." Holism is sometimes described as the opposite ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holism - 17k - Cached - Similar pages

Holism (Psychology wiki)
Holism Home Support Help Site Support Orientation Background ... fields Transpersonal World Transpersonal Integral Esoteric Meditation Holism (from holos, a Greek word meaning whole ... by Jan Smuts in his 1926 book, Holism and Evolution, although sociologist Emile Durkheim used ... to the Oxford English Dictionary , Smuts defined holism as "The tendency in nature to form ... sum of the parts through creative evolution." Holism (or nonreductionism) is sometimes described as ...
http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Holism - 9k - Cached - Similar pages

Holism   (translated from French)
Holism The principle of holism (of Greek holos : entirety) known as that ... understand the properties of the studied element. Holism, resulting fromEmile Durkheim, consists in explaining social ... two antagonistic camps Between holding of the holism and those from the symmetrical and opposite ... aim at making the synthesis between the holism and its opposite by adopting an ...
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holisme - 4k - Cached (French) - Wikipedia (French) - Similar pages

Semantic holism
Semantic holism Semantic holism is a doctrine in the philosophy of ... In recent years, the debate surrounding semantic holism, which is one among the many forms of holism that are debated and discussed in modern ... of a (whole) language." Problems with semantic holism If semantic holism is interpreted as ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_holism - 50k - Cached - Similar pages

Cosmic holism
Cosmic holism Cosmic holism is a term that has been used ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_holism - 0k - Cached - Similar pages

Category:Holism
Category:Holism Pages in category "Holism" There are 11 pages in this section ... C Complexity F F. David Peat H Holism I Integral theory (philosophy) R Relational theory S Holism in science S cont. Synergetics Synergy T ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Holism - 0k - Cached - Similar pages

Logical holism
Logical holism Logical holism is the belief that the world operates ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_holism - 0k - Cached - Similar pages

Confirmation holism
Confirmation holism It has been suggested that this article ... merged with Quine-Duhem thesis. (Discuss) Confirmation holism, also called epistemological holism is the claim that a scientific theory ... Neptune. There are two aspects of confirmation holism. The first is that observations are dependent ... and the synthetic. One upshot of confirmational holism is the underdetermination of theories: if ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_holism - 13k - Cached - Similar pages

Talk:Holism
Talk:Holism Personal Essay I'm no expert in academic holism, but I think the "hierarchy of holons" is only one model of holism, and a very limited/limiting one, at ... a summay[sic] of his "Theory of Holism" General Smuts had a very much wider ... was really a practical form of intellectual holism, He played the part of conciliator ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Holism - 33k - Cached - Similar pages

Talk:Semantic holism
Talk:Semantic holism Went a little longer than expected (as ... a link to explain the concept of holism in general, the definition on the Holism page saying that "the properties of a ... rewrite the introductory definition to distinguish semantic holism from holism in general.--BigCow 10:25, 18 ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Semantic_holism - 7k - Cached - Similar pages