SOME THINKING ABOUT 'SYSTEM'

Abstract

The paper attempts to dispel some of this confusion involving the word 'system'. It attempts to show that 'system' is semantically legitimate per se, despite its many specific meanings by: (a) reviewing some obvious but neglected facts of perception and cognition; (b) explicating an implication of these facts -- the 'core meaning' of a word; (c) trying to show that the many definitions of 'system' are correct applications of the core meaning of 'system' to concrete cases; (d) formulating a possible taxonomy of these applications.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 30, 1960
Accession Number
AD0656679

Entities

People

  • N. Jordan

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cells
  • Central Nervous System
  • Cognition
  • Concrete
  • Control Systems
  • Dictionaries
  • Electromagnetic Fields
  • Environment
  • Governments
  • Human Behavior
  • Language
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Nervous System
  • Personality
  • Self Organizing Systems
  • Solar System
  • Thinking

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  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Educational Psychology
  • Theoretical Analysis.