Question

According to your instructor, the philosophical doctrine that argues: (1) Biology is "something more" than chemistry or physics because it introduces the element of "life" into the analysis; (2) Psychology is "something more" than biology because it introduces the element of "mind" into the analysis; and (3) Sociology is "something more" than psychology because it introduces the element of "social structure" into the analysis, is known as ________.

Answer 1

Answer:

The answer to the question: According to your instructor, the philosophical doctrine that argues....., is known as:___, would be: Emergence.

Explanation:

Emergence is a common belief among different fields of study and knowledge and it is defined as the appearance of qualities, or characteristics in an observed entity that emerge from it when all the parts of the entity work together as a whole and allow this hidden, but part of the quality of the entity to emerge. In other words, emergence occurs when characteristics unknown to an entity emerge from the unity of the entity and not from its individualized parts. For example, in the case of this instructor, he says that biology is "more than" chemistry because it introduces the element of "life", and therefore biology is not simply chemistry, is more than that, because when its elements are taken together, biology offers more than simple chemistry. And he says the same for psychology and sociology. He build this up, furthermore, to show that each field of study mentioned afterwards, provides something more, or something emerges from the whole because the entity as a unit displays it, and not due to its individual parts.