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... modern medicine and applied biology . It has ex- tended the life expectancy far beyond the limits allotted to human beings in earlier centuries or even decades . The applica- tion of the modern methods of scientific agriculture ...
... modern medicine and applied biology . It has ex- tended the life expectancy far beyond the limits allotted to human beings in earlier centuries or even decades . The applica- tion of the modern methods of scientific agriculture ...
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... modern physics is one such view , conceived in mathematical terms , and the Hopi Weltanschauung is another and quite different one , non - mathematical and linguistic ( Whorf , 1952 , p . 67 ) . The ingrained mechanistic way of thinking ...
... modern physics is one such view , conceived in mathematical terms , and the Hopi Weltanschauung is another and quite different one , non - mathematical and linguistic ( Whorf , 1952 , p . 67 ) . The ingrained mechanistic way of thinking ...
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... modern develop- ments in 3-4 , 29-30 ; general- ized theories in , 31 ; and theory of unorganized complexity , 33 , 99 Physiological clock , 243 Piaget , Jean , 4 , 204 , 205 , 219 , 224 , 233 Picard , E. , 141 Pirozynski , W. J. P. ...
... modern develop- ments in 3-4 , 29-30 ; general- ized theories in , 31 ; and theory of unorganized complexity , 33 , 99 Physiological clock , 243 Piaget , Jean , 4 , 204 , 205 , 219 , 224 , 233 Picard , E. , 141 Pirozynski , W. J. P. ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Meaning of General System Theory | 29 |
Limitations | 38 |
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