That these wholes which rank thus high in the universe are animated, must follow by a geometrical necessity.
For, as Theophrastus well observes, wholes would possess less authority than parts, and things eternal than such as are corruptible, if deprived of the possession of soul.
In my arrangement, therefore, I have imitated the order of the universe in which, as I have already observed, wholes precede parts, and universals particulars.
We can divide by any number which goes as wholes into the parts which make up the ratio.
Boy: (the boy recites) A number can only be odd or even if it is a whole number, that is has no parts but only wholes of what it measures.
Certain difficulties are incident to the reading of longer works as wholes which it is well to recognize.
Where the study of larger literary wholes has been taken up in good faith, it has brought a rich blessing of intelligent enthusiasm.
In literature these units have been already wrought out into perfect wholes by first-class thinkers.
When we say of two things which consist of parts, that they are like one another, the likeness of the wholesdoes admit of analysis; it is compounded of likenesses between the various parts respectively.
I use these terms in no metaphysical sense, but merely as generic terms including under one head specific forms of material combination and the specific forms of motion of their wholes or parts.
Thus it is sometimes said that natural selection no longer acts on the individual because it acts on societies as wholes also; as well say that it cannot act on inner organization because it acts on the organism as a whole.
Hyslop says of this classification: "This division is based upon the distinction between aggregate wholes of the same kind and class terms.
Also: "It is important also to keep clear the distinction between class wholesand collective wholes.
Rationalism goes from wholes to parts, and always assumeswholes to be self-sufficing.
The entire elenchus and inquest is just as to whether parts which you can abstract from existing wholes can also contribute to other wholes without changing their inner nature.
Reduced to their most pregnant difference, empiricism means the habit of explaining wholes by parts, and rationalism means the habit of explaining parts by wholes.
In the mental world, on the contrary, wholes do in point of fact realize themselves per se.
The metaphor is so beautiful, and applies, moreover, so literally to such a multitude of the minor wholes of experience, that by merely hearing it most of us are convinced that it must apply universally.
It is preferable, then, to practice the construction of wholes rather than the making of exercises; and it is best at the beginning to study the different kinds of wholes, one at a time, rather than all together.
These conditions cannot be realized while working with dead fragments of language; but they are realized while constructing living wholes of composition.
And, in view of such oppositions, it will be perfectly fair to define reason as the power to get articulate insight--insight into wholes rather than fragments.
It is excellent practice, not only for the brief and the argument, but also for all other college work, to set the students to making briefs of parts or wholes of the arguments printed here as examples, or of other arguments found outside.
Thus by means of these similar parts of different wholes I pass from the assertion concerning the class as a whole to the assertion concerning the concrete case.
Rationalism tends to emphasize universals and to make wholes prior to parts in the order of logic as well as in that of being.
We must break wholes up into fractions, and then seek their common multiple.
The poetic fragments and wholes are less promising, I think, than the prose; they are evidently more experimental, and show the 'prentice hand more.
To say that active occupations should be concerned primarily with wholes is another statement of the same principle.
Wholes for purposes of education are not, however, physical affairs.
But controversy still goes on as to whether children shall begin with word wholes or with the phonic sounds.
Their lives are wholes and they continually pass from one "subject" to another, because life and its circumstances are making new demands.
The principle of these larger wholes is, of course, instinctively conservative.
Induce the child to form other wholes gradually and systematically from the various parts of the cube.
The previous gifts dealt with solids and plane surfaces, wholes or divided wholes, while this one illustrates the edge or line.
So widely different in its form is our dreaming from our waking experience, that our dreams are rarely recalled as wholes with perfect distinctness.
External sensations come in groups, too, but as a rule they do not fuse in apparently simple wholes as our internal feelings often do.
They are the plodding fact gatherers, many of them doing good service, collecting material which the seer and the philosopher, with their constructive power, build together into the greater wholes which make our systems of thought.
The method of committing by wholesinstead of parts not only economizes time and effort in the learning, but also gives a better sense of unity and meaning to the matter memorized.
It aims to produce wholesrather than parts like the Russian system, and to be so essentially educational that, as a leading exponent says, its best effects would be conserved if the hands were cut off.
Although a philosopher may see the whole universe in its smallest part, all his theory can not reproduce educational wholes from fragments of it.
Similarly, different races and nationalities as wholes represent different apperception masses and consequently different universes of discourse and are not mutually intelligible.
Since we can pull and draw things wholes exist, and the whole is not merely the parts collected together, for were it so one could say that we perceived the ultimate parts or the atoms [Footnote ref 2].
Footnote 2: This is a refutation of the doctrines of the Buddhists, who rejected the existence of wholes (avayavî).
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wholes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
