Stephen Kline in Introducing Conceptual Foundations for Multidisciplinary
Thinking (Stanford University Press, California, ISBN 0 8047 2409 1) declares
himself a realist. He concludes by making a bet against formal proof of the
Second Law of Thermodynamics in what may be the last gasp of systems theory,
which suggests that everything, holistically, is more than the sum of the
parts.
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