Causal texture, contextualism, contextural

 June 9, 2020  daviding 0 Comments

In the famous 1965 Emery and Trist article, the terms “causal texture” and “contextual environment” haven’t been entirely clear to me.  With specific meanings in the systems thinking literature, looking up definitions in the dictionary generally isn’t helpful.  Diving into the history of the uses of the words provides some insight.

• 1. Causal texture
• 2. Contextualism and contextural
• 3. Texture
• 4. Causal
• 5. Transactional environment, contextual environment
• Appendix.  Retrospective on the 1965 article from 1997

The article presumes that the reader is familiar with the 1965 Emery and Trist article,.  The background in the Appendix provides some hints, but is more oriented as context in a history of science.

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