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... Causality and Teleology A Another point I would like to mention is the change the scientific world picture has undergone in the past few decades . In the world view called mechanistic , which was born of classical physics of the ...
... Causality and Teleology A Another point I would like to mention is the change the scientific world picture has undergone in the past few decades . In the world view called mechanistic , which was born of classical physics of the ...
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... causality , but I another expression of it . The final state to be reached in future is s not a vis a fronte mysteriously attracting the system , but only another expression for causal vires a tergo . For this reason , physics makes ...
... causality , but I another expression of it . The final state to be reached in future is s not a vis a fronte mysteriously attracting the system , but only another expression for causal vires a tergo . For this reason , physics makes ...
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... causality becomes circular . ( 3 ) Typical feedback or homeostatic phenomena are ' open ' with respect to incoming ... causality as is basic in conventional physical theory ( cf. Chapter 4 ) . The cybernetic approach retains the ...
... causality becomes circular . ( 3 ) Typical feedback or homeostatic phenomena are ' open ' with respect to incoming ... causality as is basic in conventional physical theory ( cf. Chapter 4 ) . The cybernetic approach retains the ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Meaning of General System Theory | 29 |
Limitations | 38 |
Copyright | |
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