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(1990) Liberating systems theory, Dordrecht, Springer.
A unique feature of holism is the possibility of and tendency toward describing everything in systems terms. This can be explained by its early development within the forced confines of a nonreflective positivistically oriented General Systems Theory. We can choose to consider any situation as a system and know that, of course, it is also a sub- and supra-system...."Is it not?" That is unless the Universe is the system in focus, which is naturally heralded as the ultimate supra-system. Apparently there is no need to look beyond the horizon of this closed set of concepts...."Can this be so?"
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-2477-3_4
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Flood, R. L. (1990). On "system": conceptual anti-reflexivity (strand 1), in Liberating systems theory, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 57-68.
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