Systems thinking, a consilience of values and logic

Human Systems Management

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 259-274

  Kumar, Sameer ^a   Ressler, Thomas ^a   Ahrens, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Consilience; Decision making; Deductive reasoning; Ethics; Inductive reasoning; Information; Knowledge; Metanoia; Qualitative reasoning; Quantitative reasoning; Systems thinking; Values

Indexed keywords

CONSILIENCE; ETHICS; INDUCTIVE REASONING; INFORMATION; KNOWLEDGE; METANOIA; QUALITATIVE REASONING; QUANTITATIVE REASONING; SYSTEMS THINKING; VALUES;

DECISION MAKING; FORMAL LOGIC; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 28844489576     PISSN: 01672533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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