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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... biology , organisms are , by definition , organized things . But although we have an enormous amount of data on biological organization , from biochemistry to cytology to histology and anatomy , we do not have a theory of biological ...
... biology , organisms are , by definition , organized things . But although we have an enormous amount of data on biological organization , from biochemistry to cytology to histology and anatomy , we do not have a theory of biological ...
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... biological phenomena . If you take any realm of biological phenomena , whether embryonic development , metabo- lism , growth , activity of the nervous system , biocoenoses , etc. , you will always find that the behavior of an element is ...
... biological phenomena . If you take any realm of biological phenomena , whether embryonic development , metabo- lism , growth , activity of the nervous system , biocoenoses , etc. , you will always find that the behavior of an element is ...
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... biological laws can be reduced to physical ones - i.e . , whether the natural laws sufficient to explain all inorganic phenomena are also sufficient to explain biological phenomena - is left open by Carnap , though with preference given ...
... biological laws can be reduced to physical ones - i.e . , whether the natural laws sufficient to explain all inorganic phenomena are also sufficient to explain biological phenomena - is left open by Carnap , though with preference given ...
Contents
Introduction | 8 |
On the History of Systems Theory | 10 |
Trends in Systems Theory | 17 |
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