Wholes

Nancey Murphy has claimed that there are two species of ontological reductionism: one that denies that wholes are anything more than their parts; and the stronger thesis of atomist reductionism that wholes are not "really real".

Ward's fluid style has made him one of the most aesthetically intriguing artists working in the direct market today; his panels flow effortlessly together reshaping pages into compelling wholes that shift and twist the reader's perspective.

My first education in art was as a classical singer and my first experience of how pieces can be turned into wholes in art was singing lieder cycles.

Even older is the work by Hartree-Fock c.s. on the quantum-chemisty equations and later calculations of the structure of molecules which can be regarded as one of the earliest examples of emergence and emergent wholes in science.

He deprecated self-conscious interaction with the audience and insisted on a style of portrayal in which the characters were never aware of their own absurdity but were coherent internal wholes.

This approach is based upon the idea that individuals experience things as unified wholes.

This led to the idea that reading and writing were ideas that should be considered as wholes, learned by experience and exposure more than analysis and didactic instruction.