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... a dead metaphor, from its context in the life sciences, it has come to signify a whole greater than the sum of its parts which is totalitarian with respect to these subaltern parts, as well as a self-developing entity whose unfolding through a kind of entelechy confers a certain inevitability on the ...
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Anthropological Concepts
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... Functional: Culture is the way humans solve problems of adapting to the environment or living together Mental: Culture is a complex of ideas, or learned habits, that inhibit impulses and distinguish people from animals Structural: Culture consists of patterned and interrelated ideas, ...
emergence and the logic of explanation an argument for the unity of
emergence and the logic of explanation an argument for the unity of

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holism in the sciences
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Sidestepping the holes of holism
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... claimed that the rejection of a sentence in light of some experimental data may be transmitted to some of the background assumptions of the whole theory, had the assumptions been pragmatically or meta-theoretically less important. Finally, with respect to holism about knowledge, the Contingency Cla ...
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Holism

Holism (from Greek ὅλος 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.Holism is a form of antireductionism, which is the complement of reductionism. Reductionism analyzes a complex system by subdividing or reduction to more fundamental parts. For example, the processes of biology are reducible to chemistry, and the laws of chemistry are explained by physics.Social scientist and physician Nicholas A. Christakis explains that ""for the last few centuries, the Cartesian project in science has been to break matter down into ever smaller bits, in the pursuit of understanding. And this works, to some extent... but putting things back together in order to understand them is harder, and typically comes later in the development of a scientist or in the development of science.""
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