Sentences with phrase «between holism»

Though new techniques have improved researchers» ability to isolate and amplify single genomes, another major problem still looms, echoing the familiar tension between holism and reductionism.

Not exact matches

If so, what prevents them, even «for the most part,» from participating in the conditioning of our understanding of education, not to mention the tensions between reductionism and holism?

His assessment of the tensions between reductionism and holism and between secular training and religious devotion seems generally on target.

We think that the root of reductionism is, somewhat paradoxically, the traditional support of holism through the quasi-dualistic ontology of the physical whereby the formal realm was conceived as floating between the concrete material realm and that of sustaining spiritual mind.

One of the themes that has recently emerged with the resurgence of debate over the China Study is the supposed conflict between «reductionism» and «holism.»