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Any system function which relates some system variable to environmental variables.
This definition equates any boundary with a specific class of functions which relates the system with its environment. While boundaries are indeed functional (as well as structural) one wonders if, for example, internal organs in living systems as, let us say, the digestive tract, should be considered as parts of the boundary and, if so, where to place the limits of the system.
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- 1) General information
- 2) Methodology or model
- 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
- 4) Human sciences
- 5) Discipline oriented
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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science(2020).
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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (2020). Title of the entry. In Charles François (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics (2). Retrieved from www.systemspedia.org/[full/url]
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