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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... question of the " ultimate reduction " of the laws of biology ( and the other non - physical realms ) to physics — i.e . , the question whether a hypothetico - deductive system embracing all sciences from physics to biology and ...
... question of the " ultimate reduction " of the laws of biology ( and the other non - physical realms ) to physics — i.e . , the question whether a hypothetico - deductive system embracing all sciences from physics to biology and ...
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... question of constructs in history , as they were presented , in grand form , from Vico to Hegel , Marx , Spengler , and Toynbee . Professional historians re- gard them at best as poetry , at worst as fantasies pressing - with paranoic ...
... question of constructs in history , as they were presented , in grand form , from Vico to Hegel , Marx , Spengler , and Toynbee . Professional historians re- gard them at best as poetry , at worst as fantasies pressing - with paranoic ...
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... question whether or not a limited number of civilizations - some 20 at the best - provide a sufficient and representative sample to establish justified generalizations . This question and that of the value of proposed models will be ...
... question whether or not a limited number of civilizations - some 20 at the best - provide a sufficient and representative sample to establish justified generalizations . This question and that of the value of proposed models will be ...
Contents
Introduction | 8 |
On the History of Systems Theory | 10 |
Trends in Systems Theory | 17 |
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