Definition of "holist" []

• A believer in, or practitioner of, holism. (noun)

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• "Part of what has contributed to the conflation of these two problems is the holist presuppositions of those who originally made them famous."
• "But if we give up such extreme holist views of evidence, meaning, and/or confirmation, the two problems take on very different identities, with very different considerations in favor of taking them seriously, very different consequences, and very different candidate solutions."
• "In fact, there is an important connection between this lacuna in Laudan's famous discussion and the further uses made of the thesis of underdetermination by sociologists of scientific knowledge, feminist epistemologists, and other vocal champions of holist underdetermination."