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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 ...
... 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 ...
Horoscope Interpretation—Part 3
... there has not been enough clear understanding of the difference between the several astrological factors and their several parts. A whole cannot be built up of the parts until those parts are first entirely separated from each other so that they may be recombined according to the proper design. So o ...
... there has not been enough clear understanding of the difference between the several astrological factors and their several parts. A whole cannot be built up of the parts until those parts are first entirely separated from each other so that they may be recombined according to the proper design. So o ...
Anthropological Concepts
... 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, ...
... 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
... It is argued that the inference formalism, which in natural science is taken for granted as the only logic of explanation and prediction, cannot apply universally and has rather to be confined to the class of completely determined phenomena. Since the bulk of methods of understandung practiced in so ...
... It is argued that the inference formalism, which in natural science is taken for granted as the only logic of explanation and prediction, cannot apply universally and has rather to be confined to the class of completely determined phenomena. Since the bulk of methods of understandung practiced in so ...
holism in the sciences
... which these laws are isolated, are emergent in Broads sense. Under Broads analysis, for example, the properties of an electric circuit are not emergent (even though it shows properties that its parts lack), while, from his early twentieth century perspective, some of the properties of the water mole ...
... which these laws are isolated, are emergent in Broads sense. Under Broads analysis, for example, the properties of an electric circuit are not emergent (even though it shows properties that its parts lack), while, from his early twentieth century perspective, some of the properties of the water mole ...
Sidestepping the holes of holism
... 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 ...
... 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 ...