Philosophical position that systems should be analyzed as wholes, not just as collections of parts.
The theory that the parts of any whole cannot exist and cannot be understood except in their relation to the whole.
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1 The seeding of a social change process based on integration, holism , and mutuality has already begun.
2 Perhaps the oddest contradiction of A Land is between its island patriotism and its planetary holism .
3 I'm not talking about "goshisn't-it-all-wonderful" New Age holism , but rather new kinds of mathematical and empirical synthetic science.
4 For a description of holism , see Holism-A Philosophy for Today, by Harry Settanni (New York: P. Lang, 1990).
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