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... experience and of modern research in various fields ; it is a conceptualization stemming from seventeenth- century physics which , even though still prevailing in modern debates ( Hook , 1961 ; Scher , 1962 ) , is obsolete . In the ...
... experience and of modern research in various fields ; it is a conceptualization stemming from seventeenth- century physics which , even though still prevailing in modern debates ( Hook , 1961 ; Scher , 1962 ) , is obsolete . In the ...
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... experience , as do indeed the categories in the experience of dreams . Even the most fundamental category of experience , namely , the distinction of ego and nonego , is not absolutely fixed . It seems gradually to evolve in the ...
... experience , as do indeed the categories in the experience of dreams . Even the most fundamental category of experience , namely , the distinction of ego and nonego , is not absolutely fixed . It seems gradually to evolve in the ...
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Foundations, Development, Applications Ludwig von Bertalanffy. the human forms of experience are the only possible ones , valid for any rational being . On the other hand , the conception of the forms of experience as an adaptive ...
Foundations, Development, Applications Ludwig von Bertalanffy. the human forms of experience are the only possible ones , valid for any rational being . On the other hand , the conception of the forms of experience as an adaptive ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Meaning of General System Theory | 29 |
Limitations | 38 |
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