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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... phenomena and bringing teleological phe- nomena - previously tabooed - into the range of scientifically legiti- mate problems ; but it did not yield an all - embracing explanation or grand " world view , " being an extension rather than ...
... phenomena and bringing teleological phe- nomena - previously tabooed - into the range of scientifically legiti- mate problems ; but it did not yield an all - embracing explanation or grand " world view , " being an extension rather than ...
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... phenomena . The principles discussed should , however , provide a general frame or scheme within which quantitative theories of specific life phenomena should be pos- sible . In other terms , theories of individual biological phenomena ...
... phenomena . The principles discussed should , however , provide a general frame or scheme within which quantitative theories of specific life phenomena should be pos- sible . In other terms , theories of individual biological phenomena ...
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... phenomena such as armament races , war and war games , competition in the economic and other fields , treated by such comparatively novel methods . It is of particular interest that these approaches are concerned with aspects of human ...
... phenomena such as armament races , war and war games , competition in the economic and other fields , treated by such comparatively novel methods . It is of particular interest that these approaches are concerned with aspects of human ...
Contents
Introduction | 8 |
On the History of Systems Theory | 10 |
Trends in Systems Theory | 17 |
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