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... considered the living or- ganism as a strange combination of physico - chemical events or machines , biologism considers man as a curious zoological species , human society as a beehive or stud - farm . Biologism has , theoret- ically ...
... considered the living or- ganism as a strange combination of physico - chemical events or machines , biologism considers man as a curious zoological species , human society as a beehive or stud - farm . Biologism has , theoret- ically ...
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... considered to be comparable in scope to Newtonian mechanics and the introduction of calculus ; again , " the applications are meager and faltering " ( Rapoport , 1959a ; the reader is urgently referred to Rapoport's discussions on in ...
... considered to be comparable in scope to Newtonian mechanics and the introduction of calculus ; again , " the applications are meager and faltering " ( Rapoport , 1959a ; the reader is urgently referred to Rapoport's discussions on in ...
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... considered as an equilibrium system . The organism is not a closed , but an open system . We term a system " closed " if no material enters or leaves it ; it is called " open " if there is import and export of material . There is ...
... considered as an equilibrium system . The organism is not a closed , but an open system . We term a system " closed " if no material enters or leaves it ; it is called " open " if there is import and export of material . There is ...
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Introduction | 3 |
The Meaning of General System Theory | 30 |
Information and Entropy | 41 |
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