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This chapter is devoted to discussing situations in which the properties of certain systems are of, or may be considered as belonging to, a post-GOFS type. We refer to systems which can be represented and considered as acquiring properties, pre-properties, meta-properties and quasi-properties through explicit or non-explicit processes such as dynamical coherence(s) and multiple emergence(s).

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    Gianfranco Minati

  2. University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

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Minati, G., Pessa, E. (2018). Cases. In: From Collective Beings to Quasi-Systems. Contemporary Systems Thinking. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7581-5_10

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