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Relations of constitution

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Principia Cybernetica
Encyclopedia Autopoietica

Principia Cybernetica (web)
determine that the components produced constitute the topology in which the autopoiesis is realized. (Maturana and Varela, 1979)

 

Encyclopedia Autopoietica
One of the three subclasses of the relations of production defining the autopoietic organization's space of realization -- specifically, those relations which "determine that the components produced constitute the topology in which the autopoiesis is realized." (Maturana & Varela, 1980, p. 137)

Synonyms include: constitutive relations (1.) (cf. Maturana & Varela, 1980, pp. 90-91); relations of topology (cf. Maturana & Varela, 1980, p. 93).

Cf. relations of specificity, relations of order

 

International Encyclopedia of Systems & Cybernetics
no def.