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Page 45
... 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 play of random mutations and selection ; the mental world as a curious 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 play of random mutations and selection ; the mental world as a curious and ...
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... mental equilibrium must not be disturbed : Hence , in what rather ironically is called pro- gressive education , the anxiety not to overload the child , not to impose constraints and to minimize all directing influences- with the result ...
... mental equilibrium must not be disturbed : Hence , in what rather ironically is called pro- gressive education , the anxiety not to overload the child , not to impose constraints and to minimize all directing influences- with the result ...
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... mental patients . Thus Karl Menninger ( 1963 ) was able to describe the progress of mental disease as a series of defense mechanisms , settling down at ever lower homeostatic levels until mere preserva- tion of physiological life is ...
... mental patients . Thus Karl Menninger ( 1963 ) was able to describe the progress of mental disease as a series of defense mechanisms , settling down at ever lower homeostatic levels until mere preserva- tion of physiological life is ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Meaning of General System Theory | 30 |
Information and Entropy | 41 |
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