Putnam on Holism - Philosophy Lexicon of Arguments

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Holism: Holism is the assumption that the elements or the subject domain of a theory are accessible only with simultaneous availability of all elements or objects of this domain. It is also assumed that a change to an element does not exclude changes to all other elements at least. The statement "everything is connected with everything" is however a wrong characterization of the holism, since it is logically erroneous. _____________ Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

Putnam, Hilary Books on Amazon	Holism	II 480 PopperVsHolism: it is not clear which parts of a theory are refuted or not refuted when a phrase is in contradiction to single sentences of the theory. _____________ Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution.	Pu I H. Putnam Von einem Realistischen Standpunkt Frankfurt 1993 Pu II H. Putnam Repräsentation und Realität Frankfurt 1999 Pu III H. Putnam Für eine Erneuerung der Philosophie Stuttgart 1997 Pu IV H. Putnam Pragmatismus Eine offene Frage Frankfurt 1995 Pu V H. Putnam Vernunft, Wahrheit und Geschichte Frankfurt 1990

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