Boundary

Summary

A boundary makes inquiry and action possible by limiting what must be handled at once. It also externalises people, effects and responsibilities. Good systems work therefore treats boundary choice as practical, political and ethical.

Implications for practice

Boundaries decide who counts, what becomes a cost, which outcomes are visible and where responsibility stops. Changing the boundary can change the apparent problem without changing any events.

Key distinctions

• system boundary vs organisational border
• analytic boundary vs operational boundary
• inside/outside vs centre/margin
• temporary focus vs reified entity
• boundary judgement vs boundary object

Historical development

• general systems and system/environment distinction
• critical systems heuristics
• systemic intervention and boundary critique
• boundary-spanning practice

Ideas it depends on

• distinction
• observer
• purpose
• context

Further developments

• system of concern
• marginalisation
• transduction
• accountability
• intervention design

Connections to practice

• state the current boundary and purpose
• ask who and what is excluded
• test wider and narrower boundaries
• strengthen, suspend, cross, reframe or change boundaries deliberately

Common confusions

• the boundary is obvious
• wider is always better
• open systems have no meaningful boundaries
• organisational charts define the system

Further checks

• Midgley's full boundary critique
• Ulrich and CSH
• boundary objects
• boundary work in convening

Recorded connections

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• Law of Calling makes the act of drawing a system boundary explicit through Boundary

  Status: provisional · Relation: develops

  This is an interpretive conceptual crosswalk. It does not assert direct historical influence, formal equivalence or universal validity. The wording should be challenged or strengthened with page-level evidence.

  Locator: Crosswalk from the maintained law description and cited Grammar sources to the target entry's maintained definition

  • The Grammar of Systems - SCiO presentation (checked)
  • The Grammar of Systems II: From Order to Chaos and Back Again, 2nd edition (checked)
  • Applying insight from Systems Laws to challenge thinking on, and service design for, the Multiple Disadvantage system (checked)
  • Cybersecurity Lessons from The Grammar of Systems, part 1 (checked)

• Law of Crossing develops the change of position involved in crossing Boundary

  Status: provisional · Relation: develops

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  • The Grammar of Systems - SCiO presentation (checked)
  • The Grammar of Systems II: From Order to Chaos and Back Again, 2nd edition (checked)
  • Cybersecurity Lessons from The Grammar of Systems, part 1 (checked)

• Boundary sets the interface examined by System Resonance Principle

  Status: provisional · Relation: explanatory prerequisite

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  • The Grammar of Systems - SCiO presentation (checked)
  • The Grammar of Systems II: From Order to Chaos and Back Again, 2nd edition (checked)
  • Cybersecurity Lessons from The Grammar of Systems, part 1 (checked)

• Boundary makes selective knowledge visible in Darkness Principle

  Status: provisional · Relation: explanatory prerequisite

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  Locator: Crosswalk from the maintained law description and cited Grammar sources to the target entry's maintained definition

  • The Grammar of Systems - SCiO presentation (checked)
  • The Grammar of Systems II: From Order to Chaos and Back Again, 2nd edition (checked)
  • Cybersecurity Lessons from The Grammar of Systems, part 2 (checked)

• Boundary sets the interface examined by First Black Box Principle

  Status: provisional · Relation: explanatory prerequisite

  This is an interpretive conceptual crosswalk. It does not assert direct historical influence, formal equivalence or universal validity. The wording should be challenged or strengthened with page-level evidence.

  Locator: Crosswalk from the maintained law description and cited Grammar sources to the target entry's maintained definition

  • The Grammar of Systems - SCiO presentation (checked)
  • The Grammar of Systems II: From Order to Chaos and Back Again, 2nd edition (checked)
  • Cybersecurity Lessons from The Grammar of Systems, part 2 (checked)

• 32 Key Concepts in Systems Thinking and Complexity Theory includes in its synthesis Boundary

  Status: accepted · Relation: includes in synthesis

  This line records inclusion in Jurgen Appelo's named 32-concept synthesis. It does not endorse the definition, score or placement as a field consensus.

  Locator: Heading: Boundary

  • 32 Key Concepts in Systems Thinking and Complexity Theory (checked)

• Systems convening applies Boundary

  Status: accepted · Relation: applies

  Working distinction based on the named public sources and curator materials; rival usage remains admissible.

  Locator: Release 0.10 public systems-work distinctions

  • Systems convening: the art of convening diverse voices across difficult boundaries (checked)
  • Systems convening and boundaries core slides (public file identity checked)

• Systems leadership applies Boundary

  Status: accepted · Relation: applies

  Working distinction based on the named public sources and curator materials; rival usage remains admissible.

  Locator: Release 0.10 public systems-work distinctions

  • A schema for better understanding systems leadership and systems change (checked)

• Systems practice applies Boundary

  Status: accepted · Relation: applies

  Working distinction based on the named public sources and curator materials; rival usage remains admissible.

  Locator: Release 0.10 public systems-work distinctions

  • SCiO Professional Accreditation and Competency Framework (checked)
  • What do systems leadership and systems change mean to you? (checked)

• Boundary critique specialises Boundary

  Status: accepted · Relation: specialises

  The wording is limited to the named public sources. Authorship, methodological development, conceptual dependence and practical use remain distinct claims.

  Locator: Release 0.13 public primary, institutional and publisher sources

  • A Mini-Primer of Critical Systems Heuristics (checked)

• Organic Systems Framework uses Boundary

  Status: accepted · Relation: uses

  The wording is limited to the named public sources. Authorship, methodological development, conceptual dependence and practical use remain distinct claims.

  Locator: Release 0.13 public primary, institutional and publisher sources

  • The Organic Systems Framework (checked)

• Boundary is a definitional prerequisite for Bounded applicability

  Status: accepted · Relation: definitional prerequisite

  The source's bounded-applicability claim concerns the validity of approaches within contexts; it does not make every boundary equally useful or legitimate.

  Locator: Cynefin wiki, opening definition (paragraphs 6–10) and “How it Works” (paragraphs 49–52)

  • Cynefin — Cynefin.io (checked)

• Estuarine Mapping maps constraints and boundaries Boundary

  Status: accepted · Relation: uses

  The statement is limited to the named sources and their evidential role. First-party definition, authorship, historical development, application and independent evaluation remain distinct claims.

  Locator: Release 0.14 public primary, official, institutional and publisher sources

  • Estuarine Mapping — The Cynefin Company (checked)

• Boundary constrains Information

  Status: provisional · Relation: constrains

  Locator: Core Thinking Integration and operating manual boundary tests

  • Core Thinking Integration · No public link (pass4 prior material register review)
  • Systems complexity cybernetics operating manual · No public link (pass4 prior material register review)

• Boundary explanatory prerequisite Transduction

  Status: corroborated · Relation: explanatory prerequisite

  Locator: Chosen Path transduction article; Core Thinking Integration transduction section

  • Transduction - a powerful and important concept that few have heard of (research pass needs editor)
  • Core Thinking Integration · No public link (pass4 prior material register review)

• Distinction definitional prerequisite Boundary

  Status: corroborated · Relation: definitional prerequisite

  Locator: Midgley 2023 approach summary; Core Thinking Integration boundary section

  • The Systemic Intervention Approach (research pass needs editor)
  • Core Thinking Integration · No public link (pass4 prior material register review)

• Purpose constrains Boundary

  Status: corroborated · Relation: constrains

  Locator: Midgley 2023 approach summary; Core Thinking Integration boundary section

  • The Systemic Intervention Approach (research pass needs editor)
  • Core Thinking Integration · No public link (pass4 prior material register review)

• Systemic Intervention uses Boundary

  Status: corroborated · Relation: uses

  Locator: article abstract and approach account

  • The Systemic Intervention Approach (research pass needs editor)

• Systems change treats as constitutive of the system of concern Boundary

  Status: provisional · Relation: uses

  Author synthesis; no public link and no independent evidence of intervention effectiveness.

  Locator: slide 4

  • Systems convening and boundaries core slides (public file identity checked)

• Ladder of abstraction makes category changes visible alongside Boundary

  Status: provisional · Relation: complements

  This is a provisional semantic or practice crosswalk. It does not establish historical influence, equivalence, efficacy or universal applicability. Item-level source review and curator acceptance are still required.

  Locator: Interpretive comparison of the two maintained public descriptions and their cited source records

  • SCiO CF Resources v9 draft · No public link (pass4 legacy internal register audit)
  • SCiO Professional Accreditation and Competency Framework (checked)
  • The Systemic Intervention Approach (research pass needs editor)
  • Core Thinking Integration · No public link (pass4 prior material register review)
  • Systems convening and boundaries core slides (public file identity checked)

• Socio-Technical Systems draws a joint social and technical Boundary

  Status: provisional · Relation: uses

  This is a provisional semantic or practice crosswalk. It does not establish historical influence, equivalence, efficacy or universal applicability. Item-level source review and curator acceptance are still required.

  Locator: Interpretive comparison of the two maintained public descriptions and their cited source records

  • SCiO CF Resources v9 draft · No public link (pass4 legacy internal register audit)
  • The Systemic Intervention Approach (research pass needs editor)
  • Core Thinking Integration · No public link (pass4 prior material register review)
  • Systems convening and boundaries core slides (public file identity checked)

• Context diagrams makes a chosen system boundary visible through Boundary

  Status: provisional · Relation: operationalises

  This is a provisional semantic or practice crosswalk. It does not establish historical influence, equivalence, efficacy or universal applicability. Item-level source review and curator acceptance are still required.

  Locator: Interpretive comparison of the two maintained public descriptions and their cited source records

  • An introductory systems thinking toolkit for civil servants (checked)
  • The Systemic Intervention Approach (research pass needs editor)
  • Core Thinking Integration · No public link (pass4 prior material register review)
  • Systems convening and boundaries core slides (public file identity checked)

• Pig model provisionally appears to make discussable Boundary

  Status: provisional · Relation: applies

  This is a provisional semantic or practice crosswalk. It does not establish historical influence, equivalence, efficacy or universal applicability. Item-level source review and curator acceptance are still required.

  Locator: Interpretive comparison of the two maintained public descriptions and their cited source records

  • An introductory systems thinking toolkit for civil servants (checked)
  • The Systemic Intervention Approach (research pass needs editor)
  • Core Thinking Integration · No public link (pass4 prior material register review)
  • Systems convening and boundaries core slides (public file identity checked)

• Rich picture keeps early inquiry open around Boundary

  Status: provisional · Relation: complements

  This is a provisional semantic or practice crosswalk. It does not establish historical influence, equivalence, efficacy or universal applicability. Item-level source review and curator acceptance are still required.

  Locator: Interpretive comparison of the two maintained public descriptions and their cited source records

  • An introductory systems thinking toolkit for civil servants (checked)
  • The Systemic Intervention Approach (research pass needs editor)
  • Core Thinking Integration · No public link (pass4 prior material register review)
  • Systems convening and boundaries core slides (public file identity checked)

• Systems mapping depends on an explicit or implicit Boundary

  Status: provisional · Relation: uses

  This is a provisional semantic or practice crosswalk. It does not establish historical influence, equivalence, efficacy or universal applicability. Item-level source review and curator acceptance are still required.

  Locator: Interpretive comparison of the two maintained public descriptions and their cited source records

  • An introductory systems thinking toolkit for civil servants (checked)
  • The Systemic Intervention Approach (research pass needs editor)
  • Core Thinking Integration · No public link (pass4 prior material register review)
  • Systems convening and boundaries core slides (public file identity checked)

• Practice: Systems concepts: make your boundary inspectable provides a practice route for Boundary

  Status: candidate · Relation: provides practice for

  A first rehearsal of boundaries, relationships, perspectives, feedback and emergence. It is not a complete treatment of systems philosophy or complexity science.

  Locator: Named exercise and its scope statement

  • Systems concepts: make your boundary inspectable (original material and source boundary recorded)

• Public resource: Service systems, citizen ecosystems, and the politics we deny contains a located mention of system boundary Boundary

  Status: candidate · Relation: source text mentions

  Exact phrase in extracted source text; page-level checking may remain pending as recorded by the locator. Its appearance may be in discussion, a quotation, a reference, or a critical comparison. No semantic or historical claim is inferred.

  Locator: PDF pages 1, 3

  • Service systems, citizen ecosystems, and the politics we deny (located public record)

• Public resource: Epistemological and empirical challenges of Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory: an interview with professors Álvaro Pires and Lukas Sosoe contains a located mention of boundaries Boundary

  Status: candidate · Relation: source text mentions

  Exact phrase in extracted source text; page-level checking may remain pending as recorded by the locator. Its appearance may be in discussion, a quotation, a reference, or a critical comparison. No semantic or historical claim is inferred.

  Locator: Extracted source text, character 29885; page-level locator pending

  • Epistemological and empirical challenges of Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory: an interview with professors Álvaro Pires and Lukas Sosoe (located public record)

• Public resource: Early-warning signals for critical transitions contains a located mention of boundaries Boundary

  Status: candidate · Relation: source text mentions

  Exact phrase in extracted source text; page-level checking may remain pending as recorded by the locator. Its appearance may be in discussion, a quotation, a reference, or a critical comparison. No semantic or historical claim is inferred.

  Locator: Extracted source text, character 43873; page-level locator pending

  • Early-warning signals for critical transitions (located public record)

• Public resource: Introduction‐“Chaordic systems thinking” for learning organizations contains a located mention of boundaries Boundary

  Status: candidate · Relation: source text mentions

  Exact phrase in extracted source text; page-level checking may remain pending as recorded by the locator. Its appearance may be in discussion, a quotation, a reference, or a critical comparison. No semantic or historical claim is inferred.

  Locator: Extracted source text, character 16753; page-level locator pending

  • Introduction‐“Chaordic systems thinking” for learning organizations (located public record)

• Public resource: Designing interagency responses to wicked problems: A viable system model board game contains a located mention of boundary judgment Boundary

  Status: candidate · Relation: source text mentions

  Exact phrase in extracted source text; page-level checking may remain pending as recorded by the locator. Its appearance may be in discussion, a quotation, a reference, or a critical comparison. No semantic or historical claim is inferred.

  Locator: Extracted source text, character 31294; page-level locator pending

  • Designing interagency responses to wicked problems: A viable system model board game (located public record)

• Public resource: People and Systems — Creating Networks of System Leadership and Practice contains a located mention of boundaries Boundary

  Status: candidate · Relation: source text mentions

  Exact phrase in extracted source text; page-level checking may remain pending as recorded by the locator. Its appearance may be in discussion, a quotation, a reference, or a critical comparison. No semantic or historical claim is inferred.

  Locator: Extracted source text, character 4673; page-level locator pending

  • People and Systems — Creating Networks of System Leadership and Practice (located public record)

• Public resource: Systems Approaches to Managing Change: A Practical Guide contains a located mention of system boundary Boundary

  Status: candidate · Relation: source text mentions

  Exact phrase in extracted source text; page-level checking may remain pending as recorded by the locator. Its appearance may be in discussion, a quotation, a reference, or a critical comparison. No semantic or historical claim is inferred.

  Locator: Extracted source text, character 303746; page-level locator pending

  • Systems Approaches to Managing Change: A Practical Guide (located public record)

• Public resource: The dynamics of purposeful change: a model contains a located mention of boundaries Boundary

  Status: candidate · Relation: source text mentions

  Exact phrase in extracted source text; page-level checking may remain pending as recorded by the locator. Its appearance may be in discussion, a quotation, a reference, or a critical comparison. No semantic or historical claim is inferred.

  Locator: Extracted source text, character 36841; page-level locator pending

  • The dynamics of purposeful change: a model (located public record)

• Public resource: Service systems, citizen ecosystems, and the politics we deny treats boundary-setting as a contested design decision Boundary

  Status: candidate · Relation: uses in argument

  What a service is responsible for is shaped by institutions, budgets, authority, and ideology. The source argues that this should be part of inquiry and design, rather than assumed away.

  Locator: PDF pp. 1–2

  • Service systems, citizen ecosystems, and the politics we deny (located public record)

• Public resource: Response to paper “Systems Thinking” by D. Cabrera et al.: Systems thinking from a critical systems perspective makes framing and boundary responsibility explicit through Boundary

  Status: candidate · Relation: uses in argument

  Holism and pluralism remain bounded. Reynolds asks that the limits and responsibility of a framing be made explicit.

  Locator: Section 1.2, printed pp. 323–324

  • Response to paper “Systems Thinking” by D. Cabrera et al.: Systems thinking from a critical systems perspective (located public record)

• Bogdanov: organisation and its changing boundaries (Challoner, 2026) presents account of Boundary

  Status: candidate · Relation: presents account of

  In Challoner’s reconstruction: A tektological boundary arises within organisational interactions.

  Locator: p. 3, DG8; p. 4, PG4

  • Bogdanov: organisation and its changing boundaries: researcher module (source scoped research pass)

• Tektological complex introduces distinction Boundary

  Status: candidate · Relation: introduces distinction

  Source-scoped reading of Challoner’s module: The tektological account treats boundary formation as part of organisational interaction.

  Locator: p. 3, DG8; p. 4, PG4

  • Bogdanov: organisation and its changing boundaries: researcher module (source scoped research pass)

• Ashby Laboratory presents account of Boundary

  Status: candidate · Relation: presents account of

  The exercise examines how a chosen boundary changes whether a quantity is treated as input or output.

  Locator: Chapter 4: Whose input is it?

  • Ashby Laboratory (source scoped research pass)

• Between the Boxes — 42 The Systemic Review uses in argument Boundary

  Status: candidate · Relation: uses in argument

  This records the paper’s use of a concept in its analysis, without treating the diagnosis as independently verified.

  Locator: System framing; the boundary between technical recovery and wider aviation disruption

  • Between the Boxes (source scoped research pass)

• Neighbourhood Health and Care: Building the System Before the Structure — 42 The Systemic Review uses in argument Boundary

  Status: candidate · Relation: uses in argument

  This records the paper’s use of a concept in its analysis, without treating the diagnosis as independently verified.

  Locator: System framing; neighbourhood nested within place and wider arrangements

  • Neighbourhood Health and Care: Building the System Before the Structure (source scoped research pass)

• Autopoiesis: The Organization of Living Systems, Its Characterization, and a Model requires an autopoietic unity to produce its Boundary

  Status: candidate · Relation: proposes condition for

  The paper requires an autopoietic unity's boundary to be generated by its component interactions and sustained by the processes it enables. An analyst's selected boundary alone does not meet that condition.

  Locator: Section 7, pp. 191–192; section 9, points 4–6, p. 193

  • Autopoiesis: The Organization of Living Systems, Its Characterization and a Model (passage checked research pass)

Claims and disputes

• A system boundary is a distinction: changing the distinction changes what is treated as system, environment or margin.

  Claim status: corroborated. Review status: research pass needs editor.

  Scope is deliberately narrow. Named editorial review is required.

  Supporting sources

  • The Systemic Intervention Approach (research pass needs editor)
  • Core Thinking Integration · No public link (pass4 prior material register review)

• Boundary judgements are made for purposes and values; changing the purpose can change the relevant system of concern.

  Claim status: corroborated. Review status: research pass needs editor.

  Scope is deliberately narrow. Named editorial review is required.

  Supporting sources

  • The Systemic Intervention Approach (research pass needs editor)
  • Core Thinking Integration · No public link (pass4 prior material register review)

• Systemic Intervention uses boundary critique to examine values and marginalisation before and during methodological choice.

  Claim status: corroborated. Review status: research pass needs editor.

  Scope is deliberately narrow. Named editorial review is required.

  Supporting sources

  • The Systemic Intervention Approach (research pass needs editor)

• Transduction concerns the transformation of information or variety between differently organised domains at a boundary.

  Claim status: corroborated. Review status: research pass needs editor.

  Scope is deliberately narrow. Named editorial review is required.

  Supporting sources

  • Transduction - a powerful and important concept that few have heard of (research pass needs editor)
  • Core Thinking Integration · No public link (pass4 prior material register review)

• In Challoner’s reconstruction: A tektological boundary arises within organisational interactions.

  Claim status: candidate. Review status: research pass needs editor.

  Source-scoped interpretation. Human editorial acceptance remains pending.

  Supporting sources

  • Bogdanov: organisation and its changing boundaries: researcher module (source scoped research pass)

• Source-scoped reading of Challoner’s module: The tektological account treats boundary formation as part of organisational interaction.

  Claim status: candidate. Review status: research pass needs editor.

  Source-scoped interpretation. Human editorial acceptance remains pending.

  Supporting sources

  • Bogdanov: organisation and its changing boundaries: researcher module (source scoped research pass)

• The paper requires an autopoietic unity's boundary to be generated by its component interactions and sustained by the processes it enables. An analyst's selected boundary alone does not meet that condition.

  Claim status: candidate. Review status: research pass needs editor.

  Primary-source exposition; editorial acceptance open

  Supporting sources

  • Autopoiesis: The Organization of Living Systems, Its Characterization and a Model (passage checked research pass)

Sources and passage locators

• The Systemic Intervention Approach (research pass needs editor)
• Core Thinking Integration · No public link (pass4 prior material register review)
• Systems convening and boundaries core slides (public file identity checked)
• The Grammar of Systems - SCiO presentation (checked)
• The Grammar of Systems II: From Order to Chaos and Back Again, 2nd edition (checked)
• Applying insight from Systems Laws to challenge thinking on, and service design for, the Multiple Disadvantage system (checked)
• Cybersecurity Lessons from The Grammar of Systems, part 1 (checked)
• Cybersecurity Lessons from The Grammar of Systems, part 2 (checked)
• 32 Key Concepts in Systems Thinking and Complexity Theory (checked)
• Systems convening: the art of convening diverse voices across difficult boundaries (checked)
• A schema for better understanding systems leadership and systems change (checked)
• SCiO Professional Accreditation and Competency Framework (checked)
• What do systems leadership and systems change mean to you? (checked)
• A Mini-Primer of Critical Systems Heuristics (checked)
• The Organic Systems Framework (checked)
• Cynefin — Cynefin.io (checked)
• Estuarine Mapping — The Cynefin Company (checked)
• Systems complexity cybernetics operating manual · No public link (pass4 prior material register review)
• Transduction - a powerful and important concept that few have heard of (research pass needs editor)
• SCiO CF Resources v9 draft · No public link (pass4 legacy internal register audit)
• An introductory systems thinking toolkit for civil servants (checked)
• Systems concepts: make your boundary inspectable (original material and source boundary recorded)
• Service systems, citizen ecosystems, and the politics we deny (located public record)
• Epistemological and empirical challenges of Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory: an interview with professors Álvaro Pires and Lukas Sosoe (located public record)
• Early-warning signals for critical transitions (located public record)
• Introduction‐“Chaordic systems thinking” for learning organizations (located public record)
• Designing interagency responses to wicked problems: A viable system model board game (located public record)
• People and Systems — Creating Networks of System Leadership and Practice (located public record)
• Systems Approaches to Managing Change: A Practical Guide (located public record)
• The dynamics of purposeful change: a model (located public record)
• Response to paper “Systems Thinking” by D. Cabrera et al.: Systems thinking from a critical systems perspective (located public record)
• Bogdanov: organisation and its changing boundaries: researcher module (source scoped research pass)
• Ashby Laboratory (source scoped research pass)
• Between the Boxes (source scoped research pass)
• Neighbourhood Health and Care: Building the System Before the Structure (source scoped research pass)
• Autopoiesis: The Organization of Living Systems, Its Characterization and a Model (passage checked research pass)

• The Systemic Intervention Approach: abstract and account of the approach · research pass needs editor
• Core Thinking Integration: sections beginning 'systems work is not mapping the system' and 'a system boundary is not innocent' · research pass needs editor
• Systems convening and boundaries core slides: slides 2, 4 and 6 · research pass needs editor
• Systems complexity cybernetics operating manual: boundary, evidence, power, dynamics, variety, second-order and ethics tests · research pass needs editor
• Transduction - a powerful and important concept that few have heard of: sections on Beer, organisational boundaries and coding/decoding · research pass needs editor
• Bogdanov: organisation and its changing boundaries: researcher module: p. 3, DG8; p. 4, PG4 · research pass needs editor
• Bogdanov: organisation and its changing boundaries: researcher module: p. 3, DG8; p. 4, PG4 · research pass needs editor
• Autopoiesis: The Organization of Living Systems, Its Characterization and a Model: Section 7, pp. 191–192; section 9, points 4–6, p. 193 · research pass needs editor

Cite this entry

Taylor, B. P. (2026). Boundary. The Necessary Tangle, release 0.35. https://transduction.systems/entries/concept_boundary/

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