Functional entailment and immanent causation in relational biology

Axiomathes

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 289-302

  Louie, A H ^a  

^a NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anticipatory systems; Closure to efficient causation; Functional entailment; Immanent causation; Robert Rosen

Indexed keywords

EID: 52049086898     PISSN: 11221151     EISSN: 15728390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10516-008-9047-y     Document Type: Article

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