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Is it possible to establish and communicate some rules that could guide the good use of reason in those complex and familiar messes called human affairs (Simon, 1983) ? The project of systemic modelling (SM) should allow any actor who practises it, thus becoming a model builder, to construct some systems of symbols on which he can exercise his reason while transforming them freely, from representation to representation, in turn diplomatic and theatrical1 ; an exercise that we usually call “reflection” whereby the actor constructs the project in his mind before and in order to illustrate it by his action2. It is this conception of SM which legitimates its project of understanding or intelligence of the complexity (Le Moigne, 1985) : perception, itself complex, of phenomena which are themselves perceived as complex and thus irreductible to a finite model, as detailed and specific as possible. Perception not allowed by Analytic Modelling which, since almost two centuries, is quasi monopolistically set up in western scientific culture.
Plenary lecture presented at the 8 th GIRI Meeting, December 1994, Jerusalem, Israel.
Communication presented at the 8 th GIRI Meeting, December 1994, Jerusalem, Israel.
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Le Moigne, J.L., Carrée, H. (1997). On Modelling Complex System Applied to Homeopathy. In: Bastide, M. (eds) Signals and Images. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5804-6_16
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