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- noun Plural form of
holon .
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Examples
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My graphic artist designed the color bands, now called holons, because the black-white versions in the book A Theory of Everything were so sterile and fragmented.
Don Beck - Observations on Third Tier, with all due respect William Harryman 2007
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A team of physicists from the Universities of Cambridge and Birmingham have shown that electrons in narrow wires can divide into two new particles called spinons and a holons.
Monday chemokitty 2009
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Holons built up from holons built up from holons, and yet more holons emerging through every phase of evolution: cosmological, biological, and now cultural.
What, Me Worry?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The goal of morality is to orchestrate harmonious interaction between these holons to produce win-win situations for the various interests wherever possible.
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The perspective I would prefer morality to come from is this: The world is made up of different holons with different interests.
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The diagram in Figure 1 (Right) attempts to portray how reality according to Wilber (2000c: 6) is composed of a hierarchy of levels, which he prefers to call holarchies, because the basic levels are holons (wholes within wholes) of consciousness.
Kenneth Sørensen - Integral Psychosynthesis, a comparison of Wilber and Assagioli William Harryman 2009
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But the Tom, Dick, and Harris elsewhere are endlessly nitpicking about Ken and refuse to see the holes in their hallucinatory holons.
Archive 2006-12-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2006
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But the Tom, Dick, and Harris elsewhere are endlessly nitpicking about Ken and refuse to see the holes in their hallucinatory holons.
Kena and Ken Tusar N Mohapatra 2006
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The holons.org web site is about waking up from the sleep of everyday life.
Holons.org Tusar N Mohapatra 2005
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And reality is composed, not of things nor processes nor wholes nor parts, but of whole/parts, holons.
Holons.org Tusar N Mohapatra 2005
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