Source: 1960s, Robots, Men and Minds (1967), p. 69
“# General system theory in the narrower sense (G. S. T.), trying to derive from a general definition of “system” as complex of interacting components, concepts characteristic of organized wholes such as interaction, sum, mechanization, centralization, competition, finality, etc., and to apply them to concrete phenomena.
While systems theory in the broad sense has the character of a basic science, it has its correlate in applied science, sometimes subsumed under the general name of Systems Science.”
Source: General System Theory (1968), 4. Advances in General Systems Theory, p. 90-91
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If there be a third revolution (i.e. after the psychoanalytic and behavioristic), it is in the development of a general theory.
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