Irreducibility
Return to ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability)
In database systems, atomicity is one of the ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) transaction properties. An atomic transaction is an indivisible and irreducible series of database operations such that either all occur, or nothing occurs.
- Snippet from Wikipedia: Emergence
In philosophy, systems theory, science, and art, emergence occurs when a complex entity has properties or behaviors that its parts do not have on their own, and emerge only when they interact in a wider whole.
Emergence plays a central role in theories of integrative levels and of complex systems. For instance, the phenomenon of life as studied in biology is an emergent property of chemistry and quantum physics.
In philosophy, theories that emphasize emergent properties have been called emergentism.