And not all scientists were so vain as to suggest they could ever know the
truth: many claimed nothing more than to observe and try to explain what was
observed to the best of their ability. They left "truth" to the politicians and
religious.
Perhaps "newly fashionable" is a better term?
Sean Gawne
>1. The Shift from Part to Whole
>
>In the old management it was believed that a complex
>organizational system could be understood from the
>properties of its parts.
>
>In the new management, the relationship between the
>parts and the whole are reversed. The properties of
>the parts can only be understood from the dynamics of
>the whole. Ultimately there are no parts at all. What
>we call a part is merely a pattern in an inseparable
>web of relationships.