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Relations of order

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Principia Cybernetica
Encyclopedia Autopoietica

Principia Cybernetica (web)
determine that the concatenation of the components in the relations of constitution, specification and order be the ones specifiedby the autopoiesis. (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 concatenation of the components in the relations of constitution, specification, and order be the ones specified by the autopoiesis." (Maturana & Varela, 1980, p. 137)

Cf. relations of constitution, relations of specificity

 

International Encyclopedia of Systems & Cybernetics
no def.