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of or being an irreducible element

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forming an essential element, as arising from the basic structure of an individual

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of or being the essential or basic part

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Mahler was sometimes evoked here, and, more, the raw elementalism of Janacek in this gripping affirmation of the creative life-force.

Review: Strings of life; CBSO Symphony Hall

Except in the fields of science and mathematics, our present way of thinking based on identification, allness, elementalism, and intensionality has been institutionalized--accepted as the norm, and formally maintained, promoted, and protected by our institutions and societies at large.

Realities: words, "minds," institutions, psychoanalysis, and cosmoanalysis: a calculus-structural-heuristic approach (Part 1)

General semantics notes, through its notion of elementalism, that we live in a process world but our language does not accurately reflect this fact because it allows us to "split" with words what can not be split in the world "out there." For example, we talk about "mind" and "body" as if they were separate entities.

An interview withigs president Martin H. Levinson

We should be aware that the work is made and experienced by an "organism-as-whole-in-an-environment." To present a painting as a hermetic unit, whose territory begins and ends at the edge of the canvas, perpetuates a kind of "elementalism." Korzybski (2000) writes:

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