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Organisation as relations
Organisation considered through relations among components and their effects. The concept supports inquiry into what a decomposition preserves or loses; it does not imply that every whole possesses the same kind of organisation.
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Summary
Organisation considered through relations among components and their effects. The concept supports inquiry into what a decomposition preserves or loses; it does not imply that every whole possesses the same kind of organisation.
Implications for practice
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Key distinctions
- source account vs editorial interpretation
- material exchange vs causal openness
- bibliographic access vs full-text evidence
Historical development
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Connections to practice
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Common confusions
- Treating a shared term as proof that two accounts are equivalent.
Further checks
- Original-source verification and human editorial review remain open.
Recorded connections
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Status: candidate · Relation: presents account of
In Challoner’s reconstruction: Organisation depends on relations that an additive account of parts can miss.
Locator: pp. 2–3, DG1 and PG1–PG2
- Bertalanffy: organisation, openness, and equifinality: researcher module (source scoped research pass)
Claims and disputes
In Challoner’s reconstruction: Organisation depends on relations that an additive account of parts can miss.
Claim status: candidate. Review status: research pass needs editor.
Source-scoped interpretation. Human editorial acceptance remains pending.
Supporting sources
- Bertalanffy: organisation, openness, and equifinality: researcher module (source scoped research pass)
Sources and passage locators
- Bertalanffy: organisation, openness, and equifinality: researcher module (source scoped research pass)
- Bertalanffy: organisation, openness, and equifinality: researcher module: pp. 2–3, DG1 and PG1–PG2 · research pass needs editor
Cite this entry
Taylor, B. P. (2026). Organisation as relations. The Necessary Tangle, release 0.35. https://transduction.systems/entries/concept_organisation/
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