General Systems Theory
The transdisciplinary study of the abstract organization of phenomena, independent of their substance, type, or spatial or temporal scale of existence.
As a basic science, it deals, on an abstract level, with general properties of systems, regardless of physical form or domain of application, supported by its own metaphysics in Systems Philosophy. GST provides a way to abstract from reality; simplifying it while at the same time capturing its multidimensionality. As an epistemology it structures not only our thinking about reality but also our thinking about thinking itself. (Skyttner 2005)
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Systems theory is the interdisciplinary study of systems in general, with the goal of discovering patterns and elucidating principles that can be discerned from, and applied to, all types of systems at all nesting levels in all fields of research. Read More