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The Lvov-Warsaw School and the Problem of a Logical Formalism for General Systems Theory

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The value of philosophy depends not only on the answers it gives to the poignant questions of our life. Methods elaborated by philosophy for sciences able to meet those questions are more important.

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Uyemov, A.I. (1998). The Lvov-Warsaw School and the Problem of a Logical Formalism for General Systems Theory. In: Kijania-Placek, K., Woleński, J. (eds) The Lvov-Warsaw School and Contemporary Philosophy. Synthese Library, vol 273. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5108-5_30

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