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Cybernetics and Systems
An International Journal
Volume 20, 1989 - Issue 3
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THIMBLES AND HOPE: AN ESSAY ON ANALOGY AND SYSTEMS THEORY

Robert L. Flood Department of Management Systems and Sciences, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, UK
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Sionada A. Robinson Department of Systems Science, City University, Northampton Square, London, EC1V OHB, UK
Pages 201-214 | Published online: 24 Oct 2007

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I.O. KOZINE. (2001) PRIOR RELIABILITY ASSESSMENTS BASED ON COHERENT IMPRECISE PROBABILITIES. International Journal of General Systems 30:3, pages 283-307.
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ZHENGXIN CHEN. (1995) ON ANALOGY FOR SOFTWARE REUSE: A PERSPECTIVE FROM CYBERNETICS. Cybernetics and Systems 26:6, pages 697-711.
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Z. Chen. (1991) ANALOGY, SYSTEMS, AND INTELLIGENCE. Cybernetics and Systems 22:6, pages 611-616.
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R. L. FLOOD & S. A. ROBINSON. (1990) NEW DOMAINS FOR ANALOGY: SYSTEMIC DIALECTICS AND THEORY DEVELOPMENT. International Journal of General Systems 18:2, pages 113-123.
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R. L. Flood & S. A. Robinson. (1988) ANALOGY AND METAPHOR AND SYSTEMS AND CYBERNETICS METHODOLOGY. Cybernetics and Systems 19:6, pages 501-520.
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Igor O. Kozin. (1996) Analogical reasoning for reliability analysis based on generic data. Reliability Engineering & System Safety 54:1, pages 59-64.
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David Schecter. (1991) Beer's ?organizational tensegrity? and the challenge of democratic management. Systems Practice 4:4, pages 303-317.
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Robert L. Flood & Werner Ulrich. (1990) Testament to conversations on critical systems thinking between two systems practitioners. Systems Practice 3:1, pages 7-29.
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R. L. Flood. (2016) Liberating Systems Theory: Toward Critical Systems Thinking. Human Relations 43:1, pages 49-75.
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