Evaluate which approach, you think, is more useful in your life, holism or reductionism, analysis or speculation. Explain your reason. Cite 2 examples.
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The reductionism / holism debate is a controversy that raises questions about the very nature of “explanation” itself. At first sight such questions can seem difficult and abstract but in essence the two positions in this debate can be summed up in single phrases.
For the reductionist “the simple is the source of the complex”. In other words to explain a complex phenomenon (like human behavior) one needs to “reduce” it to its constituent elements. For the holist “the whole is more than the sum of the parts”.
In other words human behavior has its own properties that are not explicable in terms of the properties of the elements from which it is derived.
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