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  %REDUCTIONISM ELEMENTS PARTS VISION WHOLE REALITY 961125

     Reductionism  may  entail treating the whole of  some
reality as no more than a collection of its parts.

     Reductionism  may  also entail treating the whole  of
some  reality  as a version of the whole which is  not  an
open  and  honest  acknowledgment  of  the  whole  of  the
reality.

     In  the first of the above instances the integrity of
a reality may be violated by:

     (1)  Insisting  on  dealing with the reality only  in
terms of its parts;

     (2)  Being  selective as to which parts of the  whole
to take into considerations, and which to ignore;

     (3)  Being selective as to which relationships  among
parts to consider, and which to ignore;

     (4)  Ignoring  ways in which the whole of the reality
in  is inseparable from its environment---and insisting on
viewing it only in terms of its internal structures.

     In the second of the above instances the integrity of
the reality may be violated by reducing it to a version of
the whole which:

     (1)  Meets  the  reductionists'  needs to ignore  the
original whole,

     (2)  Can be  seen through  a  filter  which  conceals
and/or  obscures essential  aspects of the original whole,

     (3)  Is  not in tune with the environment in the same
way as the original was.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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