Basic Presuppositions

1) causality principle (efficient causality)

2) classical logic (necessary logic )

3) functional relationships

“Emerging Quality” of Self-Organizing Systems

1’) Generative Causality

2’) Adherent Logic (Emerging Conclusions)

3’) Ordinal Relationships

d/dt is the corresponding formal translation

f(t) represents a functional relationship

Development of an appropriate Language

- L. Boltzmann, A. Lotka

- H. T. Odum: Emergy Algebra and M. Em-P. P.

- Further developments in transient conditions

- Introduction of the “Incipient” derivative $\tilde{d}/\tilde{d}t$

- Thermodynamic Principles (1st, 2nd, 3rd)

- Physical Laws (specific for each Discipline)

Every System is a “Mechanism

Hypotheses

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Mathematical Formalization

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Conclusions

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Confirmation by experimental results

The Maximum Ordinality Principle

- is applicable to any Field of analysis: non-living

Systems, living Systems, “thinking” Systems (e.g. Human Systems)

- at any space-time scale and in variable conditions

- it also offers a more appropriate description of

any given System and its surrounding habitat

Every System is a “Self-Organizing System”