EMPIRICAL VIEW in systemics 3)
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E. LASZLO developed a systemic view of empiricism, quite close to SINGER's, CHURCHMAN's and ACKOFF's "experimentalism": "Empirical facts lie where theory meets nature: there is no fact without theoretical conceptions, just as there is none without an observational content. The meeting of theory and nature defines the plane of observation and experiment: that is the realm of fact" (1987, p.178).
What LASZLO calls "empirical adequacy" is thus strongly influenced by various systemic viewpoints:
- facts should not be isolated from context
- facts may respond to different levels of abstraction
- facts are not independent from the observer's perceptive frames of reference.
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- 2) Methodology or model
- 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
- 4) Human sciences
- 5) Discipline oriented
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