It's also wrong :) Systems thinking incorporates reductionism - you do think about the individual parts as well as the hole. Systems thinking is a synthesis of

It's also wrong :) Systems thinking incorporates reductionism - you do think about the individual parts as well as the hole. Systems thinking is a synthesis of reductionism and holistic/emergence thinking, and both are necessary. From Meadow's "Thinking in Systems": I start with the basics: the definition of a system and a dissection of its parts (in a reductionist, unholistic way). Then I put the parts back together to show how they interconnect to make the basic operating unit of a system: the feedback loop. It is not an antidote so much as an acknowledgment of the incompleteness of reductionism.