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... simple perceptions , but actually are con- strued by an enormity of ' mental ' factors ranging from gestalt dynamics and learning processes to linguistic and cultural factors largely determining what we actually ' see ' or perceive ...
... simple perceptions , but actually are con- strued by an enormity of ' mental ' factors ranging from gestalt dynamics and learning processes to linguistic and cultural factors largely determining what we actually ' see ' or perceive ...
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Foundations, Development, Applications Ludwig von Bertalanffy. simple fashion , obtaining the graph of a straight line . But con- sidering the inconceivable complexity of processes even in a simple cell , it is little short of a miracle ...
Foundations, Development, Applications Ludwig von Bertalanffy. simple fashion , obtaining the graph of a straight line . But con- sidering the inconceivable complexity of processes even in a simple cell , it is little short of a miracle ...
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... simple old ti - stems ( nouns " lighting there , rain there , thunder there " ) and Whorf was quite wrong when he said that tonat ( he used that very word ) is structurally and logically un- paralleled in Hopi . ' Similarly , ' the Hopi ...
... simple old ti - stems ( nouns " lighting there , rain there , thunder there " ) and Whorf was quite wrong when he said that tonat ( he used that very word ) is structurally and logically un- paralleled in Hopi . ' Similarly , ' the Hopi ...
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Introduction | 1 |
The Meaning of General System Theory | 29 |
Limitations | 38 |
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