Holism in a sentence as a noun

I hinted at what you're saying in referring to holism.

I guess this isn't so surprising considering the holism with which the brain conducts itself.

One tends to reductionism, the other to holism.

I guess Aristotle still says this better than any new explanation of holism: "The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

It stands in contrast with holism, for example Quine's semantic holism.

Smuts had invented a philosophy called holism, where everyone had a 'rightful place', which was to be managed by the white race.

Even the word "electromagnetic" is loaded, no pun intended, is the same way holism is loaded and a lot of people pay a lot of money for some kind of psuedohealth service around these.

Part of avoiding the problem you ran into is focusing on pragmatism and holism - it's OK to address the symptoms if we're applying the treatment justly, but we mustn't let our primary focus stray from addressing the disease.

According to him that's what the books core idea seems to boil down to, but I think I'd bring the book with me because of all the other things as well: "fugues and canons, logic and truth, geometry, recursion, syntactic structures, the nature of meaning, zen buddhism, paradoxes, brain and mind, reductionism and holism, ant colonies, concepts and mental representations, translation, computers and creativity, consciousness and free will, sometimes even art and music of all things!

Holism definitions

noun

the theory that the parts of any whole cannot exist and cannot be understood except in their relation to the whole; "holism holds that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts"; "holistic theory has been applied to ecology and language and mental states"