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Page 13
... Society for General System Theory was realized at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1954. The name was later changed into the less pretentious ' Society for General Systems Research ...
... Society for General System Theory was realized at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1954. The name was later changed into the less pretentious ' Society for General Systems Research ...
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... society is no highway to Utopia . The Ultimate Precept : Man as the Individual We may , however , conceive of a scientific understanding of human society and its laws in a somewhat different and more modest way . Such knowledge can ...
... society is no highway to Utopia . The Ultimate Precept : Man as the Individual We may , however , conceive of a scientific understanding of human society and its laws in a somewhat different and more modest way . Such knowledge can ...
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... society , 50-52 ; isomorphism in , 80-86 ; classical , limitations of , 99 ; generalization of basic concepts in , 100 Sciences of man , system concept in , 197-216 ... Society for General Systems Re- search , 13 Society , Index 309.
... society , 50-52 ; isomorphism in , 80-86 ; classical , limitations of , 99 ; generalization of basic concepts in , 100 Sciences of man , system concept in , 197-216 ... Society for General Systems Re- search , 13 Society , Index 309.
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Meaning of General System Theory | 29 |
Limitations | 38 |
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