The basic tension is one between the parts and the whole. The emphasis on the parts has been called mechanistic, reductionist or atomistic; the emphasis on the whole holistic, organismic, or ecological.
Fritjof Capra 1996 from the Web of Life
Parts versus Whole
October 7, 2009 by rondon
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