ABSTRACT
So let us briefly recapitulate the central argument of our book at this point. We have repeatedly observed that our engrained thinking about the world time and again tends toward reification: a kind of conventional “thingishness” is continually ascribed to it, implying unequivocality, permanence, substance, extension, and so forth. The interaction between phenomena, furthermore, is usually understood in mechanicist terms; implying regularity and proportionality of effects. Such assumptions often lead scientists and managers to put a too much trust in the “measurability, predictability, and controllability” of processes.
