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... causality , produced all phe- nomena in the world , inanimate , living , and mental . No room was left for any directiveness , order , or telos . The world of the organisms appeared a product of chance , accumulated by the senseless ...
... causality , produced all phe- nomena in the world , inanimate , living , and mental . No room was left for any directiveness , order , or telos . The world of the organisms appeared a product of chance , accumulated by the senseless ...
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... causality , but another expression of it . The final state to be reached in future is not a " vis a fronte " mysteriously attracting the system , but only another expression for causal " vires a tergo . " For this reason , physics makes ...
... causality , but another expression of it . The final state to be reached in future is not a " vis a fronte " mysteriously attracting the system , but only another expression for causal " vires a tergo . " For this reason , physics makes ...
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... causality is not applied in direct or immediate experience . Causality is a category applied to bring order into objectivated experience reproduced in symbols . Within the latter , we try to explain mental and behavioral phenomena as ...
... causality is not applied in direct or immediate experience . Causality is a category applied to bring order into objectivated experience reproduced in symbols . Within the latter , we try to explain mental and behavioral phenomena as ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Meaning of General System Theory | 30 |
Information and Entropy | 41 |
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