作者: GREGORY BATESON
DOI: 10.1001/ARCHPSYC.1960.03590110001001
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摘要: Every science, like every person, has a duty toward its neighbors, not perhaps to love them as itself, but still lend tools, borrow tools from them, and, generally, keep the neighboring sciences straight. We may judge of importance an advance in any one science terms changes which this compels make their methods and thinking. But always there is rule parsimony. The we behavioral ask for genetics, or philosophy, information theory must be minimal. unity whole achieved by system minimal demands imposed each upon and—not little—by lending conceptual patterns occurs among various sciences. My purpose,