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Complexity theories are on the way to establish a new worldview—processes instead of objects, history and uniqueness of everything instead of repetition and lawlikeness are the elements. These theories from deterministic chaos via the dissipative structures, the theory of catastrophes, self organization and synergetics are mathematical models, connected with a new understanding of science. They are characterized by new fundamental commitments of sciences. But at the same time, they are characterized by epistemic boundaries.
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complexity, self organization, chaos theory, synergetics, scientific commitments
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Theories of complexity and their problems.
Front. Philos. China, 2007, 2(3): 423-436 DOI:10.1007/s11466-007-0027-x
