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Atomism
Nature
Until the atom was split, the universe was believed to consist of minute, indivisible particles. This belief survives operationally among those who treat the parts of a thing as having an existence all their own apart from the whole.
Broader
Modernism
Inadequate models of socio-economic development
Narrower
Preoccupation with isolated problems
Related
Reductionism
Aggravates
Inconclusiveness of science
Irrelevance of science and technology
Reference(s)
Norgaard, Richard: Development Betrayed: The End of Progress and a Coevolutionary Revisioning of the Future
Type
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems