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title: systems
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date: 2026-04-06
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layout: column.njk
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tags: column
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permalink: /columns/2026/systems/
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## Rough Notes
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- [Reichenbach](https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2025/entries/reichenbach/)
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> "The greatest empiricist of the 20th century!"
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- [Boulding?](asdf) - Spaceship Earth, General Systems Theory
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- Meta-laws, generalizations, that leap from one discipline to another.
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- We group a body of knowledge together under an umbrella of a domain, and in that box, the roots of connection may grow, but we miss the cross-cutting relationships that may have been realized, had we not kept knowledge as a house plant, bundled in a box.
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- Teaching the truth vs. teaching a model. Do we confuse the latter for the former, or is it misrepresented from the get-go?
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## Questions
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- Have we kneecapped ourselves through rigid classification, and artificial specialization?
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- Are these contradictions? Discuss:
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- The Composition Law:
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> The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
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- The Decomposition Law:
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> The part is more than a fraction of the whole
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- Are they? If the "part" were less than the fraction of the whole, how could the whole possibly be more than the sum of its parts?
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- But then, all the parts together must be greater than the whole
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- But the whole is greater than the sum of all parts...
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- I say it's flawed to distinguish whole and part. The arithmetic doesn't work out because they're necessarily interconnected.
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## Quotes
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> The power of reason must be sought \
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> not in the rules that reason dictates to our imagination, \
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> but in the ability to free ourselves \
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> from any kind of rules to which we have been conditioned \
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> through experience and tradition
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- Reichenbach
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## ToDo
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- Max Planck Scientific Autobiography
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