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The concept of emergence today knows a fortune that goes beyond the scope of epistemology and the philosophy of science making it one of the leading concepts in the field of theories of complexity and innovation and thus risking, at the same time, to disperse its undoubted conceptual power in some descriptive indeterminacy.

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  1. Dipartimento di Scienze Umanistiche, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, Palermo, Italy

    Salvatore Tedesco

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    Salvatore Tedesco

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Tedesco, S. (2020). Emergence. In: Vercellone, F., Tedesco, S. (eds) Glossary of Morphology. Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51324-5_30

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