Knowing complex systems: The limits of understanding

A Vision of Transdisciplinarity: Laying Foundations for a World Knowledge Dialogue

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 43-50

  Cilliers, Paul ^a,b,c  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence   (United States)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

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