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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... animals may be cut up into any number of pieces and still regenerate a complete animal ? Double - headed hydras can easily be made by experiment ; then the two heads may fight for a daphnia , al- though it is immaterial on which side ...
... animals may be cut up into any number of pieces and still regenerate a complete animal ? Double - headed hydras can easily be made by experiment ; then the two heads may fight for a daphnia , al- though it is immaterial on which side ...
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... animals there cannot be disturbance of ideas , delusions of grandeur or of persecution , etc. , for the simple reason that there are no ideas to start with . Hence , “ animal neurosis " is only a partial model of the clinical entity ...
... animals there cannot be disturbance of ideas , delusions of grandeur or of persecution , etc. , for the simple reason that there are no ideas to start with . Hence , “ animal neurosis " is only a partial model of the clinical entity ...
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... animals ; they should be compared to Whorf's equally amusing drawings which show how the world is modeled according to linguistic schemes . Here only a few examples , chosen from Uexküll's extensive behavioral studies , can be mentioned ...
... animals ; they should be compared to Whorf's equally amusing drawings which show how the world is modeled according to linguistic schemes . Here only a few examples , chosen from Uexküll's extensive behavioral studies , can be mentioned ...
Contents
Introduction | 8 |
On the History of Systems Theory | 10 |
Trends in Systems Theory | 17 |
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