Note 294

The holistic view is certainly not a true criterion of distinction between inorganic and organic (organismic), because in the first case it is about absolutely undoubted wholenesses [wholes] whose wholeness-characterizing-feature is well fixed in simple physical laws, while in the second case it is about a wholeness-behavior of entities that are  apparently  not (but in fact truly are) genuinely holistically constituted wholes. [So, often (i.e. according to many opinions) wholeness is supposed to certainly be in inorganic things (such as atoms, molecules, and crystals), while it is only seemingly present in organisms]. One thus would turn a wrong opinion into a division mark [between inorganic and organismic] ).

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