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Holism and Atomism in Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus [PDF]

Analiza i Egzystencja, 2021
The aim of my paper is to describe and evaluate different conceptions of holism in Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. I distinguish three readings of holistic elements in this work: i) Minimal Holism (E. Anscombe, M. Black, D.
Krystian Bogucki
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Ontological Holism Without Mental Holism

Journal of Social Ontology, 2023
In his recent book Shared and Institutional Agency, Bratman (2022) argues that institutional agents consist of social rules of procedure. Those rules are policies that are shared among many of their members.
Frank Hindriks
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Holism and Time Symmetry

Quanta, 2016
Quantum mechanics is often taken to entail holism. I examine the arguments for this claim, and find that although there is no general argument from the structure of quantum mechanics to holism, there are specific arguments for holism available within ...
Peter J. Lewis
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Unveiling Emergence and Holism in Biology: Essential Insights from Self-Organization [PDF]

Biology
This essay re-examines the enduring conceptual landscape of self-organization with the objective of clarifying the fundamental role of emergence and holism in contemporary biology.
Srdjan Kesić
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HOLIZMAS IR INDIVIDUALIZMAS ALDO LEOPOLDO ŽEMĖS ETIKOJE

Problemos, 2001
Straipsnyje analizuojama amerikiečių ekologo Aldo Leopoldo (1886-1948) ekologinė etinė sistema, paties autoriaus pavadinta žemės etika (land ethic). Tai viena iš pirmųjų išplėtotų šiuolaikinės ekologinės etikos koncepcijų.
Česlovas Kalenda
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Systematism—The Evolution from Holistic Cognition to Systematic Understanding

Computer Sciences & Mathematics Forum, 2023
Starting from the ancient philosophical proposition of “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts”, this article attempts to answer the different responses of different holistic theories to “1 + 1 > 2” in different times.
Hongjian Yuan, Yaru Chen
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Semantic Holism in Scientific Language [PDF]

, 2010
Whether or not meaning is compositional has been a major issue in linguistics and formal philosophy of language for the last two decades. Semantic holism is widely and plausibly considered as an objection to the principle of semantic compositionality ...
Andreas, Holger, Holger Andreas
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Hermeneutic Approach to Quantum Learning [PDF]

Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2021
This paper aims to discover the key components of quantum theory in learning through hermeneutic research method. Quantum theory is exactly against the theory of simplicity. While the theory of simplicity has been influenced by modernity and the insights
Ehsan Sabaghi Noushabadi, Hassan Rastegarpour, Majid AliAsgari   +2 more
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Combining Holism and Interactionism. Towards a Conceptual Clarification

Journal for Person-Oriented Research, 2015
The terms “holism” and “interactionism” are central to the person-oriented approach, especially as formulated in Magnusson’s (2001) holistic-interactionistic paradigm.
Lars-Gunnar Lundh
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Confirmation Holism and Underdetermination in Quine’s Thought

Filosofia Unisinos, 2012
Quine is frequently acknowledged as one of the main proponents of both confirmation holism and underdetermination. In the recent literature, however, his views have been often criticized and misrepresented: the distinction between the two theses has ...
Rogério Passos Severo
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