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Bohm maintained that relativity and quantum theory are in basic contradiction in these essential respects, and that a new concept of order should begin with that towards which both theories point: undivided wholeness.

This should not be taken to mean that he advocated such powerful theories be discarded.

He argued that each was relevant in a certain context — i. e. a set of interrelated conditions within the explicate order — rather than having unlimited scope, and that apparent contradictions stem from attempts to overgeneralize by superposing the theories on one another, implying greater generality or broader relevance than is ultimately warranted.

Thus, argued: "... in sufficiently broad contexts such analytic descriptions cease to be adequate ... ' the law of the whole ' will generally include the possibility of describing the ' loosening ' of aspects from each other, so that they will be relatively autonomous in limited contexts ... however, any form of relative autonomy ( and heteronomy ) is ultimately limited by holonomy, so that in a broad enough context such forms are seen to be merely aspects, relevated in the holomovement, rather than disjoint and separately existent things in interaction ".