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Cybernetics and Systems
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Volume 20, 1989 - Issue 3
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CRITICAL SYSTEMS AND THE PROBLEM OF PLURALISM

Pages 219-231 | Received 27 Jan 1989, Published online: 24 Oct 2007

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