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....systems are not composed of things, but are rather defined on things, and there is a clear distinction between their physical, thinghood , and logical, systemhood , properties. Gaines reaches the solipsistic limit of this trend, defining a system as [that which] is distinguished as a system [6]. Movement towards a synthetic sense of system, capturing both the structural and constructivist traditions, is both possible and desirable. Previously we have approached this within a more fundamental language of distinction, variety, and constraint, and on the distinction between cardinal ....
Gaines, Brian R: (1979) "General Systems Research: Quo Vadis?", General Systems Yearbook, v. 24, pp. 1-9
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