Macedonia as a whole tended to remain in isolation from the rest of Greece... Peter Green
Thus while diminishing returns do exist when industries are broadly defined, no industry can be considered in isolation from all the others, as supply and demand curve analysis requires. Steve Keen
The fallacy is that one can judge the part in isolation from the whole is "the Lie that all men believe." Robert Anton Wilson
It is not hard to see why the Eastern holistic perspective made scientific progress so difficult. It denies the intuition that one can study the parts of the world in isolation from the rest-that one can analyze the world... John D. Barrow