ABSTRACT

This chapter detects systems-ideas, and arranges them in a simple structure. In the course of proposing and founding a new field of knowledge, many individuals formulate their own definitions. Since the terms system theory, systems research, system analysis, and system science began to be bandied about in the early 1940s dozens of scientists have attempted to define the nature and scope of the field. System-science that is predicated on the system-paradigm interpreted as such is generated by the primary assumption about the system. This universe of system thinking is constituted by primordial opposite preconceptions about reality, the preconception on one pole that reality is discrete and on other pole that reality is continuous. The phenomenon is seen with regard to the standard stream. System-theory and cybernetics seemed to respond to a secret trend in various disciplines: they put into words and explicate that which is tacitly alive in minds of many people in the post-world war.