holism holds that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Unfortunately, these are used to dismiss the weird conjunctive picture of Quine's holism, which is obviously bad.    From Wordnik.com.  [Words and Other Things] Reference

This claim emerges as the consequence of the core particularist doctrine, which we can call the holism of reasons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moral Particularism] Reference

Perhaps these, too, are not a result of direct causal connections, but rather a manifestation of some kind of holism or nonseparability?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holism and Nonseparability in Physics] Reference

The first is the confirmational holism discussed above.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indispensability Arguments in the Philosophy of Mathematics] Reference

In one interpretation, holism is a methodological thesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holism and Nonseparability in Physics] Reference

And that is the essence of holism, the antithesis of dualism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stephen Marshall: Apres Hannity, Le Deluge] Reference

Evolution, and to some extent also the related views of holism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

“Relativity, relational holism, and the Bell inequalities.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Structural Realism] Reference

This support comes from the doctrines of naturalism and holism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indispensability Arguments in the Philosophy of Mathematics] Reference

Now he spoke about the human spirit, holism and ancient wisdoms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Private Prince] Reference

Maddy suggests that we should side with naturalism and not holism here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indispensability Arguments in the Philosophy of Mathematics] Reference

This is an early version of a holism which has since had many adherents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Francis Herbert Bradley] Reference

(See also Parsons (1983) for some related worries about Quinean holism.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Indispensability Arguments in the Philosophy of Mathematics] Reference

Weinberg's (1992) reductionism is opposed to nomological holism in science.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holism and Nonseparability in Physics] Reference

Roughly, naturalism gives us the "only" and holism gives us the "all" in P1.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indispensability Arguments in the Philosophy of Mathematics] Reference

Methodologically, holism stands opposed to reductionism, somewhat as follows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holism and Nonseparability in Physics] Reference

This is where holism comes to the fore: in particular, confirmational holism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indispensability Arguments in the Philosophy of Mathematics] Reference

Physical property holism entails physical relational holism, but not vice versa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holism and Nonseparability in Physics] Reference

A great advantage of this approach over the early identity theory is its holism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Identity Theory of Mind] Reference

Teller (1989) has introduced the related idea of what he calls relational holism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holism and Nonseparability in Physics] Reference

The holism of Mulla Sadra's approach may be seen in his examination of eschatology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mulla Sadra] Reference

As with Maddy's third objection, it gives us some cause to reject confirmational holism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indispensability Arguments in the Philosophy of Mathematics] Reference

Bohm's (1980, 1993) reflections on quantum mechanics led him to adopt a more general holism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holism and Nonseparability in Physics] Reference

Baker 2005 offers a version of the indispensability argument that does not depend on holism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation in Mathematics] Reference

Her objections draw attention to problems of reconciling naturalism with confirmational holism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indispensability Arguments in the Philosophy of Mathematics] Reference

Lyre takes this to be a variant of spatiotemporal holism, and connects it to structural realism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holism and Nonseparability in Physics] Reference

One of the great insights of Confucian thinking is the prohibition on scapegoating, and its holism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bernard Rowan: Hallyu and Haan] Reference

Section 8 (below); the replies amount to the claim that, despite appearances, holism must be false.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moral Particularism] Reference

Classical physics presents no definitive examples of either physical property holism or nonseparability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holism and Nonseparability in Physics] Reference

As section 6 explained, almost any instance of physical property holism would demonstrate nonseparability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holism and Nonseparability in Physics] Reference

Ecology emerged as a science only in the mid-20th century around the ideas of holism and system integration.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Introduction to Ecological Economics~ Chapter 1] Reference

Methodological holism stands opposed to methodological reductionism, in physics as well as in other sciences.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holism and Nonseparability in Physics] Reference

Esfeld (2001) also takes holism, in the quantum domain and elsewhere, to involve not just a failure of supervenience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holism and Nonseparability in Physics] Reference

How did that sense of holism in the community in Shelton, in a place like Shelton Laurel, or Sodom, or a place like that?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Taylor Barnhill, November 29, 2000. Interview K-0245. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

Any evaluation of the significance of quantum holism and/or nonseparability must rest on a careful analysis of these notions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holism and Nonseparability in Physics] Reference

If women's brains are paragons of holism, while men's are a house divided, it could explain findings both serious and curious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gray Matters] Reference

Some have held that it is possible to understand these patterns as instances or consequences of quantum holism or nonseparability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holism and Nonseparability in Physics] Reference

In fact, a clearer case of holism would arise in a modal interpretation that implied that the component lacked P while the compound had.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holism and Nonseparability in Physics] Reference

A special issue of the journal Studies in the History and Philosophy of Physics (2004) is devoted to holism in the philosophy of physics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holism and Nonseparability in Physics] Reference