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Holism, Physical Theories and Quantum Mechanics [PDF]
, 2004 Motivated by the question what it is that makes quantum mechanics a holistic theory (if so), I try to define for general physical theories what we mean by `holism'.
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‘Quine’s Meaning Nihilism: Revisiting Naturalism and Confirmation Method,’ [PDF]
, 2017 The paper concentrates on an appreciation of W.V. Quine’s thought on meaning and how it escalates beyond the meaning holism and confirmation holism, thereby paving the way for a ‘meaning nihilism’ and ‘confirmation rejectionism’.
Chakraborty, Dr Sanjit
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Holisme as ’n postmodernistiese filosofie in teologiese lig
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 1990 Holism as a postmodern philosophy in theological light Postmodernity is defined primarily as advocacy for holistic thinking as against the alleged fragmentation in epistemology in the Modern Time.
A. G. van Aarde
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Crossing the symbolic threshold: a critical review of Terrence Deacon's The Symbolic Species [PDF]
, 2002 Terrence Deacon's views about the origin of language are based on a particular notion of a symbol. While the notion is derived from Peirce's semiotics, it diverges from that source and needs to be investigated on its own terms in order to evaluate the ...
Lumsden, David
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Reasons, Rationalities, and Procreative Beneficence: Need Häyry Stand Politely By While Savulescu and Herissone-Kelly Disagree? [PDF]
, 2011 The claim that the answers we give to many of the central questions in genethics will depend crucially upon the particular rationality we adopt in addressing them is central to Matti Häyry’s thorough and admirably fair-minded book, Rationality and the ...
Herissone-kelly, Peter N
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Frontiers in Neurology, 2018 Objective: To report the methodology and summary data of the Health Outcomes and Lifestyle In a Sample of people with Multiple sclerosis (HOLISM) longitudinal and validation cohorts.
Tracey J. Weiland +12 more
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, 2021 Powers ontologies are currently enjoying a resurgence. This would be dispiriting news for the moderns; in their eyes, to imbue bodies with powers is to slide back into the scholastic slime from which they helped philosophy crawl.
Ott, Walter
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Infrastructures, 2018 Resilience research includes multiple definitions, concepts, perspectives, and applications across a broad range of academic disciplines. While experts, policy-makers, and practitioners assert that resilience requires holism, what is considered holistic ...
John E. Thomas +2 more
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Fact/Value Holism, Feminist Philosophy, and Nazi Cancer Research
Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, 2015 Fact/value holism has become commonplace in philosophy of science, especially in feminist literature. However, that facts are bearers of empirical content, while values are not, remains a firmly-held distinction.
Sharyn Clough
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