GSPS

Abstract

The last three chapters have presented fundamental concepts which are representative of investigative processes and have described the manner in which these concepts lead to a natural classification of general systems. Throughout this development a major emphasis has been placed on process-oriented aspects of knowledge acquisition, an emphasis which demands an augmentation of static conceptions to include relations and movements among the systems levels which the concepts motivate. This is achieved in this chapter through the development of a conceptual framework referred to as general systems problem solving.

Indeed from our present standpoint, physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, but rather as the development of methods for ordering and surveying human experience.

Neils Bohr

Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge

One thing is sure, though, that the methods themselves must change if aims change.

Henri Cartan

Nicolas Bourbaki und die Heutige Mathematik