"Systems thinking is only an epistemology, a particular way of describing the world. It does not tell us what the world is. Hence, strictly speaking, we should never say of something in the world: “It is a system,” only: “It may be described as a system.”"
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John Mingers (2006) Realising Systems Thinking: Knowledge and Action in Management Science. p. 87.
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