Eliciting a Universe of Meaning

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Eliciting a Universe of Meaning (Non-Kairos references)

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Yolles, Maurice I. / Fink, Gerhard.  A General Theory of Generic Modelling and Paradigm Shifts (part 3): the extension. Kybernetes, 44, 2015, 2, pp. 311-328. [abstract]

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