“Nothing is harder to topple than a fact that supports a deeply held prejudice denied by its holder.” — Russell L. Ackoff, The Art of Problem Solving
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“Nothing is harder to topple than a fact that supports a deeply held prejudice denied by its holder.” — Russell L. Ackoff, The Art of Problem Solving

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How does #SystemsThinking relate to #Pragmatism? Within #PhilosophyOfScience, #CWestChurchman and #RussellLAckoff continued the #experimentalism of #EdgarASinger to put nonrelativistic pragmatism at the core of systems thinking in an entanglement of facts and values.

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Nonrelativistic pragmatism and systems thinking – Coevolving Innovations