Become Simpler The Longer You Look

Depend On Order

Keep Their Own Order

Make Complexity Navigable

Only Stay Neat If Maintained

Organize Complexity

Reveal Themselves Under Pressure

Reward Fresh Eyes

system

is a body of propositions which must unceasingly and actively be tested. At no moment should a system be looked at, as peirce put it, with a 'vacant eye'.

System means in Peirces philosophy a body of propositions which must unceasingly and actively be tested. At no moment should a system be looked at, as Peirces put it, with a 'vacant eye' (mora 1955 : 357)

is a chain of events related to each other, or of operations'.

a system is 'a chain of events related to each other, or of operations' (Luhmann 1993: xiii).

is a complex of interacting elements and that they are open to, and interact with their environments.

a system is a complex of interacting elements and that they are open to, and interact with their environments.

is a distinction-maker its existence is determined by this single task.

A system can exist only by making constant distinctions between what it is versus what its environment is. For example, the aesthetic system is constantly distinguishing between what is beautiful and what is ugly. Its very existence depends upon continually producing this distinction, on constantly asserting what is beautiful and what is not. In the process, it is framing its environment as everything that waits to be coded as beautiful or ugly. It is in this way that systems can only exist because they have an environment available to be processed. Notice that the reverse is not true. No environment requires a system to exist' (Gershon 2005:101).

is a distinction-maker. The environment is that which does not fall within the distinction.

is a grouping of symbols that hang together in a stable set of relationships, like a language.

First, according to Geertz, religion is 'a system of symbols.' Symbols are 'tangible' and 'perceptible' things that stand in for abstractions such as 'ideas, attitudes, judgments, longings, or beliefs.' Examples include everything from the written number '6' to the cross in Christianity. But Geertz also says that a religion is a 'system,' so it is a grouping of symbols that hang together in a stable set of relationships, like a language.

is an integrated whole whose essential properties arise from the relationships between its parts.

Capra defines system as' an integrated wholewhose essential properties arisefrom the relationships between itsparts'(p. 27).

is binary in the way it evaluates every input, but, like with the legal system which evaluates everything in terms of what is legal or illegal, it is always coded from its own particular logic.

a system evaluates every input that enters from its environment in terms of a binary code derived from its own particular logic. For example, the legal system distinguishes itself from its environment by processes that evaluate everything in terms of what is legal or illegal' (Gershon 2005:102)

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