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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... modern physics . In the Heisenberg relation and quantum physics , it became impossible to resolve phenomena into local events ; problems of order and organization appear whether the question is the structure of atoms , the architecture ...
... modern physics . In the Heisenberg relation and quantum physics , it became impossible to resolve phenomena into local events ; problems of order and organization appear whether the question is the structure of atoms , the architecture ...
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... modern research in various fields ; it is a conceptualization stemming from 17th- century physics which , even though still prevailing in modern debates ( Hook , 1961 ; Scher , 1962 ) , is obsolete . In the modern view , science does ...
... modern research in various fields ; it is a conceptualization stemming from 17th- century physics which , even though still prevailing in modern debates ( Hook , 1961 ; Scher , 1962 ) , is obsolete . In the modern view , science does ...
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... modern doctrine of hormones , of somatotypes and the like . The modern evolutionist , guided by the theory of random mutation and selection , does not see that an organism is obviously more than a heap of heredi- tary characteristics or ...
... modern doctrine of hormones , of somatotypes and the like . The modern evolutionist , guided by the theory of random mutation and selection , does not see that an organism is obviously more than a heap of heredi- tary characteristics or ...
Contents
Introduction | 8 |
On the History of Systems Theory | 10 |
Trends in Systems Theory | 17 |
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