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Holism: Encyclopedia - Holism

Holism (from holos, a Greek word meaning whole) is the idea that the properties of a system cannot be determined or explained by the sum of its components alone. The word, along with the adjective holistic, was coined in the early 1920s by Jan Smuts. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Smuts defined holism as "The tendency in nature to form wholes that are greater than the ...

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Holism: Encyclopedia II - Holism - Responses to holism Holism, especially in its metaphysical varieties, is controversial. Many scientists and philosophers regard some of these claims as unfalsifiable or less meaningful than holism's proponents do. Others see them as incorrect or as pseudoscience. Some forms, however, like epistemological and confirmation holism, are mainstream ideas in contemporary philosophy. Similarly mainstream, complexity theory (sometimes referred to as "complexity science", such as at the Santa Fe Institute), comprises a holistic, 'top-down' approach towards unders ...

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Holism: Encyclopedia - Natural health

In alternative medicine, natural health is an eclectic self-care system of "natural therapies" concerned with building and restoring health and wellness via prevention and healthy lifestyles. Natural health includes herbalism, natural hygiene, naturopathy, and nutripathy and these techniques are sometimes viewed to be useful as complementary therapy to conventional medicine. Natural health - History of Natural Health. Although the term natural health did not become part of common usage until the late ...

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Holism: Encyclopedia - Monism

Monism is the metaphysical and theological view that there is only one principle, essence, substance or energy in this Universe. Monism is to be distinguished from dualism, which holds that ultimately there are two principles, and from pluralism, which holds that ultimately there are many principles. Monism - Theological growth and breadth. Hinduism (including Vedanta and Yoga), Taoism, Buddhism, Pantheism, Zen, and similar systems of thought explore the mystical and spiritual elements of a monistic philoso ...

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Monism - Ancient philosophers

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Holism: Encyclopedia - Two Dogmas of Empiricism

Quine's paper Two Dogmas of Empiricism, published 1951, is one of the most celebrated papers of twentieth century philosophy in the analytic tradition. The paper is an attack on two central parts of the logical positivists' philosophy. One is the distinction between analytic truths and synthetic truths, explained by Quine as truths grounded only in meanings and independent of facts, and truths grounded in facts. The other is reductionism, which is the theory that each meaningful statement gets its meaning from some logical construc ...

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Holism: Encyclopedia - Emergence

Emergence is the process of complex pattern formation from simpler rules. This can be a dynamic process (occurring over time), such as the evolution of the human brain over thousands of successive generations; or emergence can happen over disparate size scales, such as the interactions between a great number of neurons producing a human brain capable of thought (even though the constituent neurons are not individually capable of thought). The original term wa ...

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Holism: Encyclopedia - Pantheism

Pantheism (Greek: pan = all and Theos = God) literally means "God is All" and "All is God". It is the view that everything is of an all-encompassing immanent God; or that the universe, or nature, and God are equivalent. More detailed definitions tend to emphasize the idea that natural law, existence, and/or the universe (the sum total of all that is, was, and shall be) is represented or personified in the theological principle of 'God'. Pantheism - History. The term "pantheist" — of which th ...

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Pantheism - Pantheistic concepts in religion

Pantheism - Islam

Pantheism - Other religions

Pantheism - Quotations

Holism: Encyclopedia - Willard Van Orman Quine

Willard Van Orman Quine (June 25, 1908 – December 25, 2000) was one of the most influential American philosophers and logicians of the 20th century. Willard Van Orman Quine - Overview. Quine falls squarely into the analytic philosophy tradition, though he is also the main proponent of the view that philosophy is not conceptual analysis. He served as the Edgar Pierce Chair of Philosophy at Harvard University from 1956 to 2000. His major writings include Two Dogmas of Empiricism, which influentially ...

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Holism: Encyclopedia - Hakomi

Hakomi therapy is a form of depth psychology developed by Ron Kurtz. 'Hakomi' is a Hopi word meaning "Who are you? - You are, who you are!" or "How do you relate?" The Hakomi method combines Western psychology and system's theory with Eastern insight and body-centered techniques. Kurtz incorporated into Hakomi five principles: mindfulness, non-violence, organicity, unity and body-mind holism. ...

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Holism: Encyclopedia - Holomovement

Holomovement is a metaphysical concept invented by David Bohm describing his view of the "fabric of reality", implying "undivided wholeness in flowing movement" [1]. According to this viewpoint, holomovement is the underlying flow (of possibly not yet defined qualities related to thought, matter and energy) in which reality (or the possible realities) can be experienced. The term "holomovement" constitutes a double reference to: holism, the view that a whole cannot be reduced to its constituent parts (a view Bohm i ...

Holism: Encyclopedia - Gestalt

Gestalt is a German word meaning shape or form. The word also bears connotations to creativity (Gestaltung). In English gestalt refers to the concept where an entity's properties cannot be discovered from the total properties of its parts. The more general English equivalents are synergy, holism, emergence, and variations on the phrase "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts". In psychology, Gestalt can refer to: Gestalt psychology (Gestalt theory), and Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy

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Holism: Encyclopedia - Consilience

Consilience, or the unity of knowledge (literally a "jumping together" of knowledge), has its roots in the ancient Greek concept of an intrinsic orderliness that governs our cosmos, inherently comprehensible by logical process, a vision at odds with mystical views in many cultures that surrounded the Hellenes. The rational view was recovered during the high Middle Ages, separated from theology during the Renaissance and found its apogee in the Age of Enlightenment. Then, with the rise of the modern sciences, the sense of unity gradual ...

Holism: Encyclopedia - Logical atomism

Logical Atomism is a philosophical belief that originated in the early 20th century with the development of Analytic philosophy. Its principal exponents were the British philosopher Bertrand Russell, the early work of his Austrian-born colleague Ludwig Wittgenstein, and his German counterpart Rudolf Carnap. The theory proposes that language, like other components of the world, consists of ultimate logical "parts" (or "atoms") that cannot be broken down any further. In order to understand ordinary language, we must perform "anal ...

Holism: Encyclopedia - Zhuangzi

Zhuāngzǐ (pinyin), Chuang Tzu (W-G), or Chuang Tse (Chinese 庄子/莊子, literally meaning "Master Zhuang") was a famous philosopher in ancient China who lived around the 4th century BCE during the Warring States Period, corresponding to the Hundred Schools of Thought philosophical summit of Chinese thought. He was from the Town of Meng (蒙城 Méng Chéng) in the State of Song (now Shāngqiū 商邱, Henan). His given name was 周 Zhōu. He was also known as 蒙吏, Méng Official, 蒙莊 Méng Zhuāng and 蒙叟 M ...

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Zhuangzi - The book

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Holism: Encyclopedia - Cognitivism psychology

In psychology, cognitivism is a theoretical approach to understanding the mind, which argues that mental function can be understood by quantitative, positivist and scientific methods, and that such functions can be described as information processing models. Cognitivism psychology - Theoretical approach. Cognitivism has two major components, one methodological, the other theoretical. Methodologically, cognitivism adopts a positivist approach and the belief that psychology can be (in principle) fully explain ...