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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... depends not on conditions in the sense organs but rather in the central nervous system , for it is the same for different sense organs . This flicker fusion is , of course , the raison d'ĂȘtre of movie pictures when frames presented in a ...
... depends not on conditions in the sense organs but rather in the central nervous system , for it is the same for different sense organs . This flicker fusion is , of course , the raison d'ĂȘtre of movie pictures when frames presented in a ...
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... depends widely on whether he is an untrained or a trained observer . Where for the layman there is only a chaos of shapes and colors , the histologist sees cells with their various components , different tissues , and signs of malignant ...
... depends widely on whether he is an untrained or a trained observer . Where for the layman there is only a chaos of shapes and colors , the histologist sees cells with their various components , different tissues , and signs of malignant ...
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... depends on the symbolic systems we apply . These symbolic systems are largely determined by linguistic factors , the structure of the language applied . Technical language , including the symbolism of mathematics , is , in the last ...
... depends on the symbolic systems we apply . These symbolic systems are largely determined by linguistic factors , the structure of the language applied . Technical language , including the symbolism of mathematics , is , in the last ...
Contents
Introduction | 8 |
On the History of Systems Theory | 10 |
Trends in Systems Theory | 17 |
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