I don't know if the term "holistic" makes sense here. Instead of the whole having properties that the individual components don't have, my principle is based on the idea that the whole will actually have far fewer properties than the individual components do. The properties cancel out in a sense. There's far less to learn about an object by looking at it as a whole; it's just that what remains has more practical use.

And Utilitarianism is a philosophy advocating for the maximization of moral utility, which isn't what I'm doing.