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is a relationship whereby an individual piece only has meaning when it is seen as part of the whole.

An individual piece only has meaning when it is seen as part of the whole. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

is a relationship whereby the part is more than the sum, but the whole determines what counts as parts.What's interesting is the kind of whole's that determine what count as parts . . . For example, the way a hammer counts as what it does in a referential totality.

dreyfus argues that a brick wall is more than a bunch of bricks, but that this is not interesting. the bricks still exist without the wall. What's interesting is the kind of whole's that determine what count as parts . . . for example, the way a hammer counts as what it does in a referential totality. (dreyfus lecture)

is the hermeneutic move that allows for the hearing of a chord, or the seeing of a flock of sheep.

. Carl Stumpf, and then Edmund Husserl, took on board this distinction between perceiving and explicitly noticing the parts or elements of a psychic act in their discussion of the apprehension of fused unities, such as hearing a chord, seeing a flock of sheep or a collection of objects to be counted, as we shall see. The tripartite structure of mental life (moran 'intro to phenomenology)

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