c) In some cases, spatial words are used as part of conventional phrases that have holistic meanings.
The FA wants him to take a "holistic approach", meaning players will be taught more than just technical skills, but also developed physiologically, socially and psychologically.
"These women view the business from a holistic perspective, meaning that they also care about each other," adds Shalit.
A further motive is that alternative practitioners typically have a holistic view, meaning that CAM emphasises the treatment of whole person, rather than just focusing on the symptom or the area that has the problem; according to the holistic approach, there are connections between body, mind and spirit, whereas mainstream medicine does not take this view.
Together, all of our beliefs form a holistic web of meaning, to use the Quinean metaphor.
Moreover, indeterminacy is not to be viewed merely as reflecting some epistemological limitation on interpretation, but rather reflects the holistic character of meaning and of belief.
On this understanding, prospects are improved for locating representational content in neural nets that can be compared in nets of different architectures, that is causally involved in processing, and which overcomes some objections to holistic accounts of meaning.
The anti-individualistic response presented above, like most holistic accounts of meaning, focuses on the inferences that speakers (or social groups) do make, rather than the ones that they should make.
However, an objection may be raised contra Zen's holistic, non-dualistic meaning of its "seeing" or "mirroring," namely the objection that if there is something that is mirrored, is there not still operative a dualistic epistemological structure?
