sum of its parts
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sum of its parts (plural sums of their parts)
- Concept in holism related to the idea that the total effectiveness of a group of things each interacting with one another is different or greater than their effectiveness when acting in isolation from one another.
- Together, the ant colony was greater than the sum of its parts.
- 4th century BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics:
- The whole is different from the sum of its parts.
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