gestalt

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First of all, your critique seems overly reductionist - the gestalt is what matters

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  1. noun A physical, biological, psychological, or symbolic configuration or pattern of elements so unified as a whole that its properties cannot be derived from a simple summation of its parts.

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  • Spurred by distant lightning flashes and the celestial mobile above, he gleaned a nexus of entities—undefined at first but gaining refinement—organisms engaged in camaraderie and conflict, forming a gestalt, an ecobalance, a pocket of non-entropy. —  FSF,February2006
  • I found a magazine which stated that the next important evolutionary step in man would be in a psychic rather than a physical direction, but it said nothing about a—shall I call it a gestalt organism? —  Galaxy October, 1952
  • My gestalt organism was at the point of death from that security. —  Galaxy October, 1952
  • But then people applied words like gestalt, holistic, and artistic. —  Omni: October 1993
  • The sender's address was My God The address was ldarby@utoronto.ca He opened the message, and his eyes flew all over it in mad saccades, trying to absorb it as a gestalt. —  AnalogSFF,December2006
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  1. German, shape, from Middle High German, from past participle of stellen, to place, from Old High German; see stel- in Indo-European roots.
 

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