ABSTRACT
First, some additional remarks concerning the previous week’s seminar. Boulding’s concept of an image was introduced as a basic concept for subsequent considerations. This may sound more complicated than it actually is. Even an automaton must contain a model of the external world-there must be some long-range infl uence systems built in. “A’s” image is “A’s” model of his world. What is the reason for introducing this concept? First, it provides a language permitting discussion about science, history, politics, etc., and capable of describing and admitting logical or anti-logical structures of knowledge. It is necessary for subsequent discussion to have a language that is open for the strategic and political aspects of the language of innovation of types, which can be used not only from the standpoint of an external observer but from that of an involved person as well. There seem to be two positions that any scientist, designer, or historian may have: either as an engaged decision maker or as an external observer, and we need a language structure or coordinate system admitting both these standpoints.1
