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  • noun Plural form of holon.

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • The goal of morality is to orchestrate harmonious interaction between these holons to produce win-win situations for the various interests wherever possible.

    Paradigm Assessment Schemata (Part 3) 2009

  • The perspective I would prefer morality to come from is this: The world is made up of different holons with different interests.

    Paradigm Assessment Schemata (Part 3) 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • The holons.org web site is about waking up from the sleep of everyday life.

    Holons.org Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

  • 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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