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Holism over reductionism: The current orthodox research and treatment approach of addressing one symptom (even with natural therapies) at a time without curing all other symptoms will never cure a disease.
Subjects addressed by the papers include human nature and the character of economic science, an extremely difficult logic puzzle, Wittgenstein's rejection of the possibility of philosophical doctrine, the epistemological status of mathematical truth, the problem of measurement, analycity and holism in the thought of W.
He effectively abandoned the mechanistic 19th-century view of separate functions in favour of the holism of antiquity.
 
 
 
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