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This chapter is devoted to an overview of the basic concepts defining Good Old-Fashioned Systemics (GOFS). The list and comments about such concepts is to be viewed as an introduction to Chap. 2, where we consider new conceptual categories, elaborated upon later when outlining the landscape of a new systemics. The reflections contained within these chapters have been made keeping in mind the current status of the discipline, the advancements, problems and approaches of contemporary science. We also review a partial list of unanswered questions raised by the original von Bertalanffy proposal of a General System Theory. In the last section, dedicated to further remarks, we briefly discuss the concept of matter, which is the basic framework itself of GOFS. This concept will be updated according to the conceptual basis for a new systemics outlined in Chap. 2 and in the rest of the book.
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Minati, G., Pessa, E. (2018). The Background of Good Old-Fashioned Systemics. In: From Collective Beings to Quasi-Systems. Contemporary Systems Thinking. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7581-5_1
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