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Holism extends from the Greek word "holos" which is meaning all, total, and entire. It is said that it is the idea in which all of the properties in a given system wheather it be physical, biological, social, or even economic; can...
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Acceptance of the Duhem--Quine thesis implies a recognition that empirical tests of individual hypotheses are in fact tests of individual hypotheses in conjunction with the networks from which those hypotheses are derived. This leads to a...
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Reductionism has always been the problem solving technique in sciences and associated disciplines. In reality solving a problem by reduction means transforming the problem into simpler problems and constructing or deducing solution of the o...
http://mayankchauhan.blogspot.com/2008/06/notes-on-redu...
Before we come to a close, let’s address one final question: what kind of theory is legal holism? You may have notice that I’ve been deliberately ambiguous in my phrasing of holist claims using locutions like “is or ought to be.” One view ...
http://lsolum.typepad.com/legaltheory/2009/10/legal-the...
I have shown above that materialism cannot, by definition, explain non-material influences, whereas holism, by definition, can. However, switching belief in materialism to holism does not solve all the problems, but changes them for differe...
http://www.reginaldkapp.org/New/consciousness_holistic....
Very briefly, it is a way of organizing one’s thoughts, you might say, when considering matters of history and society. It says that in any society the domains or areas we might reasonably label economy (production, consumption, and alloc...
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There are various proposals for a general characterization of holism1. In this paper I propose the following: a variety of holism is the view that every X of an appropriate kind, which is part of a relevant whole W, cannot be legitimately s...
http://philpapers.org/browse/meaning-holism
The cursory literature review completed here, repeatedly comes across the fact that health has more than any other discipline become trapped between a series of polarities. An observation noted by Lindeman & Sirelius, (2001) Tomkins's P...
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Nursing theories, while claiming to present models of holistic nursing care, do not deal adequately with human spirituality. This article reviews several nursing theories to find out which of them incorporate holism, and, if they do, whethe...
http://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/ebm/record/11209...