General System Theory: Foundations, Development, ApplicationsAn attempt to formulate common laws that apply to virtually every scientific field, this conceptual approach has had a profound impact on such widely diverse disciplines as biology, economics, psychology, and demography. |
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... physics . Consequently , physical reality appeared to be the only one vouch ... classical science or rather which did not enter its considerations . If we ... classical physics , they were considered as illusory or metaphysical . This ...
... physics . Consequently , physical reality appeared to be the only one vouch ... classical science or rather which did not enter its considerations . If we ... classical physics , they were considered as illusory or metaphysical . This ...
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... classical physics is replaced in quantum physics by indeterminism or rather by the insight that the laws of nature are essentially of a statistical character . Little is left of Kant's supposedly a priori and absolute categories ...
... classical physics is replaced in quantum physics by indeterminism or rather by the insight that the laws of nature are essentially of a statistical character . Little is left of Kant's supposedly a priori and absolute categories ...
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... physics are not a metaphysical reality behind observation ; they are an ex- pansion of what we observe with our ... classical physics , only the primary qualities such as mass , impenetrability , extension , etc. , are left which ...
... physics are not a metaphysical reality behind observation ; they are an ex- pansion of what we observe with our ... classical physics , only the primary qualities such as mass , impenetrability , extension , etc. , are left which ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Meaning of General System Theory | 30 |
Some System Concepts in Elementary Mathematical | 54 |
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