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Systems Science: “Thought About Thought”
For more than three decades Dr. Warfield studied systems and complexity. The product of his intense effort was the creation of Systems Science, described in “A Proposal for Systems Science” published in Systems Research and Behavioral Science in December 2003.
His research concluded that systems science is a hierarchy of sub-sciences, all of which incorporate the “Fundamental Triangle of All Science.”
This Triangle consists of the human being, thought about thought, and language. Because most authors involve the three vertices of this triangle intuitively in their work, they make a variety of unsubstantiated assumptions related to them.
When complexity is involved, these assumptions typically misdirect their work, which explains why, after a century of study, no systems science had been developed and tested until Warfield’s version appeared.
A history of the evolution of “thought about thought” is found in Warfield’s An Introduction to Systems Science.
John N. WarfieldSystems ScienceSoftwareBooksCatalogCollectionsAboutContactLog inSystems Science: “Thought About Thought”For more than three decades Dr. Warfield studied systems and complexity. The product of his intense effort was the creation of Systems Science, described in “A Proposal for Systems Science” published in Systems Research and Behavioral Science in December 2003. His research concluded that systems science is a hierarchy of sub-sciences, all of which incorporate the “Fundamental Triangle of All Science.”This Triangle consists of the human being, thought about thought, and language. Because most authors involve the three vertices of this triangle intuitively in their work, they make a variety of unsubstantiated assumptions related to them.When complexity is involved, these assumptions typically misdirect their work, which explains why, after a century of study, no systems science had been developed and tested until Warfield’s version appeared.A history of the evolution of “thought about thought” is found in Warfield’s An Introduction to Systems Science.
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