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The Unified Systems Hypothesis (USH) seeks to establish Principles which apply to all systems. In so doing, it builds upon General Systems Theory and the work of many systems thinkers. This paper is a much-reduced presentation of the principal ideas behind the USH, which is best approached as a set of mutually-consistent models or images of Open Systems and, particularly of their interconnections. USH operates, not from the system viewpoint, so much as from the viewpoint of the interactions between systems
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Hitchins, D.K. (1991). A Unified Systems Hypothesis. In: Jackson, M.C., Mansell, G.J., Flood, R.L., Blackham, R.B., Probert, S.V.E. (eds) Systems Thinking in Europe. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3748-9_26
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