ARTICLE: PDF OnlyPhilosophical issues in the Rogerian science of unitary human beingsReeder, Francelyn RSM, MS, CNM Author Information PhD Candidate Division of Nursing New York University New York, New York (Former) Assistant Professor Parent-Child & Nurse-Midwifery Program University of Utab Salt Lake City, Utab Advances in Nursing Science: January 1984 - Volume 6 - Issue 2 - p 14-23 Buy Abstract In the Rogerian science of unitary human beings, the requirements for meaning and evidence are problematic. Four-dimensionality, a major building block, is postulated to be nonspatiotemporal, nonlinear, and not predictable through knowledge of the parts. A problem arises primarily because the Rogerian system also presents “verification of concepts” as the means of testing “fit” with the real world. Evidence usually understood in the criterion of verifiability in the logical empiricist tradition is specifiable through physicalistic terms under particular three-dimensional conditions. What are the consequences if integral (phenomenologic) evidence is taken as the criterion of meaning in the Rogerian conceptual system? © 1984 Aspen Publishers, Inc.
