LO & the New Sciences LO5044

Gray Southon (gsouthon@ozemail.com.au)
Tue, 23 Jan 1996 08:05:23 +1100 (EST)

Replying to LO4998 --

John

Would you give me a reference to the works of Polanyi and Peirce?

Thanks

Gray Southon

At 08:18 AM 20/1/96 -0500, JOHNWFIELD@aol.com wrote:
>Replying to LO4986 --
>
>A common sight these days is to see the word "complexity" used to
>represent one of the following four:
>
>o Systems Dynamics
>o Chaos Theory
>o Adaptive Systems Theory
>o Warfield's Budding Science of Complexity
>
>
>To be set up for the last one, you need to know that all human beings are
>fallible, and that individuals can't manage complexity alone: a central
>part of the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce, and a direct inference
>from Michael Polanyi.
>
>John N. Warfield
>Johnwfield@aol.com

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