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An inevitable prerequisite for this book, as implied by its title, is a presupposition that systems science is a legitimate field of scientific inquiry. It is self-evident that I, as the author of this book, consider this presupposition valid. Otherwise, clearly, I would not conceive of writing the book in the first place.
The aim of science is not things themselves,...but the relations between things; outside those relations there is no reality knowable.
—Henri Poincaré
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Klir, G.J. (2001). What Is Systems Science?. In: Facets of Systems Science. International Federation for Systems Research International Series on Systems Science and Engineering, vol 15. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1331-5_1
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