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Relations of specificity

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Principia Cybernetica
Encyclopedia Autopoietica

 

Principia Cybernetica (web)
determine that the components produced be the specific ones defined by their participation in 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 components produced be the specific ones defined by their participation in the autopoiesis." (Maturana & Varela, 1980, pp. 88, 137) These are sometimes referred to as relations of specification(s) (cf. Maturana & Varela, 1980, pp. 89-91).

Cf. relations of constitution, relations of order

 

International Encyclopedia of Systems & Cybernetics
no def.