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Mastering systems thinking in practice
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3 The naming of systems

This leads to an important distinction between two ways in which the term ‘system’ is used depending on traditions and practices that we touched on in Week 2:

  • commonly recognised systems
  • explanatory systems
  • in addition there is another distinction based on the level of description.