Meditations on Genesis

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Abstract
The historical background of the organismic-developmental approach is given. The approach is shown to have its roots in the rationalist and romantic traditions. The approach emphasizes; logical priority of wholes or contexts over parts; logical priority of systemic rules over elements; activism" and form-building nature of the organism as opposed to its passivity; irreducibility of higher levels of organization to lower ones; irreducibility of structure-functional analysis to efficient-causal or antecedent-consequent analysis; and, finally, the pervasiveness of forces of differentiation and integration at all levels of organismic transactions with environments.

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