On a system–environment relationship in scientific inquiry: A response to ‘Definition of System’ by A. D. Hall and R. E. Fagen

Krzysztof Kasianiuk

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, 2021, vol. 38, issue 4, 517-526

Abstract: In one of early accounts of system–environment relationship, A. D. Hall and R. E. Fagen presented a thesis that specification of environment could be as difficult as specification of system. However, since that moment, many researchers have not put similar emphasis on specification of environment as they have put on specification of system. In this article, it is argued that system and environment should be understood either as ‘parts’ or ‘aspects’ of nature, which translates into two qualities of their relationship—‘interactivity’ and ‘transactivity’. Moreover, the quality of system–environment relationship influences modelling and explanatory strategies within scientific inquiry.

Date: 2021
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