Sense and nonsense in systems thinking https://bit.ly/2yXGImr	Logical Positivist Pragmatic Empirical Epistemology
“Exceptionally useful” “Makes EA more powerful, coherent and usable.” “The most important work on EA and applied System Theory today.” “Way beyond any other EA/system engineering/human factors/systems theory resource.” More comments	Models <create and use> <represent> Thinkers <observe & envisage> Phenomena
I have withdrawn my two books on Amazon. Because my more recent Linkedin articles (listed under four titles below) are better. For publication in books watch this space.	Home page

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	A Systems Thinker’s view of Enterprise Architecture	A Systems Thinker’s view of Description and Reality	A Systems Thinker’s view of Systems Thinkers	A Systems Thinker’s view of Sociology
		How we describe reality, and a philosophical basis for systems thinking.	Comparing and contrasting systems thinkers’ ideas, with new insights.	A logical analysis of social systems thinking and modern social philosophy.
Articles	EA history EA method history Zachman’s framework What TOGAF is and is not ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010 EA today Positioning EA today An architecture value stream Architect roles EA and systems thinking Intro to the system thinking triad System theories System theories and EA Service-orientation in EA and BA EA vision and reality EA domain insights Enterprise business architecture Enterprise data architecture	Intro to the system thinking triad Who we are Typology How we describe things How we relate things How we assess truth How we typify things Structural and behavioral views Domain knowledge Domain knowledge Vocabularies and grammars Taxonomic trees Ontological concept graphs Causality Determinism and probability Consciousness and free will Causal analysis Systemology Entity and event modeling The systems thinking triad ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010 Semiotics The problem of universals Semiotic and other triads	Preface Foundations System thinking approaches Bertalanffy’s ideas - GST Systems in general Maturana’s ideas Closed systems thinking Ashby’s ideas - cybernetics Closed system diagrams Forrester’s ideas Meadows’ ideas Senge’s ideas Open systems thinking Event-driven systems Business architecture Abstraction from detail Soft systems thinking ideas Ackoff’s ideas Beer’s ideas Deeper thinking Purpose Hierarchies of knowledge Information Feedback Self-organization Change Complexity System philosophy Abstracting description from reality Abstracting systems from reality The systems thinking triad Semiotic triads Types,instances and things	Foundations System thinking approaches Bertalanffy’s ideas - GST Systems in general Maturana’s ideas Complexity Five hierarchies of knowledge Complexity “Complexity in the universe” Complex adaptive systems Social systems thinking Social entities and systems Social systems thinking part I Rules and violations part I Social systems thinking part II Rules and violations part II Socio-cultural thinking Social philosophy The concepts of social justice The politics of sexual equality Impacts on society
	Below, more questionable research and notes made while stumbling to the above
	TOGAF as applied system theory Premises of EA and TOGAF EA and philosophy Quality assurance systems (a rant)	Old notes for philosophy for mathematicians More things to know about systems What is not a system? Disambiguating terms	Ackoff’s ideas Ashby’s cybernetics Ashby’s law of requisite variety Beer’s ideas Bertalanffy’s ideas
General	Systems		Philosophy	continued…
	Thinkers before systems thinking Systems in general Social systems thinking – intro Critical system thinking etc Systems thinking vocabulary Systems science or poetry? The physics of systems System coupling varieties	Boulding’s ideas Checkland’s ideas Clemson’s ideas Forrester’s ideas Meadows’ generalizations Von Foerster’s ideas Maturana’s ideas Luhmann’s ideas Snowden’s ideas System change varieties System stability and change	The problem of universals System philosophy Knowledge and truth A critique of realism Existence in space and time Relativity v quantum mechanics Ontology and phenomenology Logical positivism (Wittgenstein) About life Relevance of the above to EA	Description and reality The 9 propositions idealism Insights from the idealism triangle System theory as idealism Philosophical position statement Insights from description theory The psychology of description The philosophy of description Principles for a vocabulary Data and reality – after Bill Kent
More ideas	On complexity science	General, information and description	Cybernetic ideas
	Complexity science Complexity measurement Complex adaptive systems Complexity explained? – part 1 Complexity explained? – part 2	On description On types and fuzziness On information On information & communication Information feedback loops Other information theories Mental models and how brains work The evolution of description The evolution of description The evolution of types and logic The magic number seven Research for description theory	Cybernetics intro Second order cybernetics Self-organising systems Third generation cybernetics More on dynamics Applying cybernetics to business	Goal-directedness Hierarchical v network organisation Chaos and non-linear behaviour Agility
		Types	More sociological thinking
	Entities and identities Homeostasis and control Hierarchies and lattices. Idealisation in system theory “the real machine” the eternal golden braid Abstraction varieties and typology	A type theory The evolution of types Types in different disciplines How things instantiate types Types and instances Types and meta types Taxonomies and ontologies Types and instances – analysis Set and type theory Systems as complex types	Bausch’s overview More sociological perspectives Ackoff’s system classes	Marx and Engels’ ideas System types People types
#	More musings	The schism		References
	The practical terminology challenge Enterprise state data Modelling madness. Functionality and Logicality Granularity and Modularity Composition and Generalisation Systems as abstractions UML types and instances Modelling the passage of time	The schism in systems thinking EA, GST and social system Social entities v. social systems Actors, roles and assignments System thinkers dictionary - draft System thinking ontology – draft	Introducing system ideas Holism and emergent properties Encapsulation The primacy of behavior Determinism and hysteresis The elements of systems Primacy of views Terms and concepts in system Anatomy of the reference model Formalising system description	References More references Types and sets references Laszlo and Krippner references

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