?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=A+New+Synthetic+Framework%3B+The+Wholist+Perspective&rft.creator=Valent%2C+Paul&rft.subject=Epistemology&rft.subject=Social+Psychology&rft.description=The+aim+of+this+paper+is+to+present+a+new+synthetic+perspective.+The+synthesis+includes+observations+from+a+number+of+disciplines+such+as+physiology%2C+medicine+psychiatry%2C+and+traumatology%2C+underpinned+by+evolutionary+biology.+The+framework%2C+it+is+suggested%2C+can+help+to+reexamine+and+clarify+important+philosophical+questions.+They+include+old+and+new+dichotomies+such+as+those+of+mind-body%2C+scientific-humanist%2C+reductionist-whole%2C+and+linear-non-linear.+Further%2C+the+framework+affords+perhaps+for+the+first+time%2C+a+logical+basis+for%2C+and+initial+heuristic+categorizations+of+specifically+human+qualities+including+emotions%2C+morality%2C+values%2C+meanings+and+purpose.+An+innate+language+may+parallel+the+logical+base+and+categorizations.+The+perspective+has+practical+clinical+applications%2C+but+perhaps+more+importantly%2C+it+contributes+to+an+overall+view+of+humans.&rft.publisher=Brunner%2FMazel%2C+Philadelphia&rft.contributor=P.%2C+Valent&rft.date=1998&rft.type=Book+Chapter&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F384%2F1%2FSynthetic.htm&rft.identifier=++Valent%2C+Paul++(1998)+A+New+Synthetic+Framework%3B+The+Wholist+Perspective.++%5BBook+Chapter%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F384%2F