Elements And Relations

Author : Martin Zwick
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030994031
Total Pages : 711 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elements and Relations written by Martin Zwick and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-08-04 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops the core proposition that systems theory is an attempt to construct an “exact and scientific metaphysics,” a system of general ideas central to science that can be expressed mathematically. Collectively, these ideas would constitute a nonreductionist “theory of everything” unlike what is being sought in physics. Inherently transdisciplinary, systems theory offers ideas and methods that are relevant to all of the sciences and also to professional fields such as systems engineering, public policy, business, and social work. To demonstrate the generality and importance of the systems project, the book structures its content in three parts: Essay, Notes, and Commentary. The Essay section is a short distillation of systems ideas that illuminate the problems that many types of systems face. Commentary explains systems thinking, its value, and its relation to mainstream scientific knowledge. It shows how systems ideas revise our understanding of science and how they impact our views on religion, politics, and history. Finally, Notes contains all the mathematics in the book, as well as scientific, philosophical, and poetic content that is accessible to readers without a strong mathematical background. Elements and Relations is intended for researchers and students in the systems (complexity) field as well as related fields of social science modeling, systems biology and ecology, and cognitive science. It can be used as a textbook in systems courses at the undergraduate or graduate level and for STEM education. As much of the book does not require a background in mathematics, it is also suitable for general readers in the natural and social sciences as well as in the humanities, especially philosophy.

Author : Martin Zwick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783030994044
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Elements and Relations written by Martin Zwick and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops the core proposition that systems theory is an attempt to construct an "exact and scientific metaphysics," a system of general ideas central to science that can be expressed mathematically. Collectively, these ideas would constitute a nonreductionist "theory of everything" unlike what is being sought in physics. Inherently transdisciplinary, systems theory offers ideas and methods that are relevant to all of the sciences and also to professional fields such as systems engineering, public policy, business, and social work. To demonstrate the generality and importance of the systems project, the book structures its content in three parts: Essay, Notes, and Commentary. The Essay section is a short distillation of systems ideas that illuminate the problems that many types of systems face. Commentary explains systems thinking, its value, and its relation to mainstream scientific knowledge. It shows how systems ideas revise our understanding of science and how they impact our views on religion, politics, and history. Finally, Notes contains all the mathematics in the book, as well as scientific, philosophical, and poetic content that is accessible to readers without a strong mathematical background. Elements and Relations is intended for researchers and students in the systems (complexity) field as well as related fields of social science modeling, systems biology and ecology, and cognitive science. It can be used as a textbook in systems courses at the undergraduate or graduate level and for STEM education. As much of the book does not require a background in mathematics, it is also suitable for general readers in the natural and social sciences as well as in the humanities, especially philosophy.

Author : John Heil
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108945422
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Relations written by John Heil and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically, philosophical discussions of relations have featured chiefly as afterthoughts, loose ends to be addressed only after coming to terms with more important and pressing metaphysical issues. F. H. Bradley stands out as an exception. Understanding Bradley's views on relations and their significance today requires an appreciation of the alternatives, which in turn requires an understanding of how relations have traditionally been classified and how philosophers have struggled to capture their nature and their ontological standing. Positions on these topics range from the rejection of relations altogether, to their being awarded the status as grounds for everything else, to various intermediary positions along this spectrum. Love them, hate them, or merely tolerate them, no philosopher engaged in ontologically serious metaphysics can afford to ignore relations.

Author : Sarah Kreps
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108922163
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Media and International Relations written by Sarah Kreps and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-13 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2016 US election highlighted the potential for foreign governments to employ social media for strategic advantages, but the particular mechanisms through which social media affect international politics are underdeveloped. This Element shows that the populace often seeks to navigate complex issues of foreign policy through social media, which can amplify information and tilt the balance of support on these issues. In this context, the open media environment of a democracy is particularly susceptible to foreign influence whereas the comparatively closed media environment of a non-democracy provides efficient ways for these governments to promote regime survival.

Author : Herbert B. Enderton
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0080570429
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elements of Set Theory written by Herbert B. Enderton and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1977-05-23 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an introductory undergraduate textbook in set theory. In mathematics these days, essentially everything is a set. Some knowledge of set theory is necessary part of the background everyone needs for further study of mathematics. It is also possible to study set theory for its own interest--it is a subject with intruiging results anout simple objects. This book starts with material that nobody can do without. There is no end to what can be learned of set theory, but here is a beginning.

Author : Scott V. Mize
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Relations of Benthic Macroinvertebrates to Concentrations of Trace Elements in Water, Streambed Sediments, and Transplanted Bryophytes and Stream Habitat Conditions in Nonmining and Mining Areas of the Upper Colorado River Basin, Colorado, 1995-98 written by Scott V. Mize and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 70 pages
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Download or read book Geochemical Relations and Distribution of Selected Trace Elements in Ground Water of the Northern Part of the Western San Joaquin Valley, California written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Oliver Cromwell Cox
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780976154150
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race Relations written by Oliver Cromwell Cox and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-31 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Race Relations: Elements and Social Dynamics,? that was previously published by Wayne State University, is the last major work of Oliver C. Cox on race relations, and is judged by scholars to be his greatest work.

Author : I.M. Schlesinger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317933524
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Production and Comprehension of Utterances (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar) written by I.M. Schlesinger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, the author reviews the results of research on language performance and proposes a model of production and comprehension. Although recent developments in linguistics are taken into account, consideration of other requirements of a performance model leads to the conclusion that the grammar the speaker has in mind differs from the grammar as currently conceived of by most linguists. The author is also critical of recent computer simulations of language performance on the basis that they fall short of describing what goes on in human production and comprehension. The author therefore proposes that the basic issues must be rethought and new theoretical foundations reformulated, in order to arrive at a viable theory of language functioning. In developing the framework of the model presented in this book, requirements of flexibility in the performance mechanisms, the probabilistic nature of comprehension processes, and the interleaving of linguistic rules with context and knowledge of the world are emphasized.

Author : Theodore William Richards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Compressibility of the Elements and Their Periodic Relations written by Theodore William Richards and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: