Isomorphy:
From Theoretical Biology, isomorphy is seen as a similarity of shape, structure or form.
Lindblom
Von Bertalanffy argued that while classical science employed basic mathematical notions such as number and species, taxonomies, relationships among elements of a system must also be accounted for.
On this view, an examination of the applicability of theories, mathematical equations, or descriptions of events in different fields yields the possibility of a unified science based on isomorphy of laws in disparate sciences, suggests that there is an underlying order in the cosmos.
"A unitary conception of the world may be based, not upon the possibly futile and certainly farfetched hope finally to reduce all levels of reality to the level of physics, but rather on the isomorphy of laws in different fields." (von Bertalanffy, 1968:48)
Von Bertalanffy
1. To investigate the isomorphy of concepts, laws, and s from various fields, and to help in useful transfers from one field to another;
2. To encourage development of adequate theoretical s in fields which lack them;
3. To minimize the duplication of theoretical effort in different
fields; and
4. To promote the unity of science through improving communication among specialists.
International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS)
originally SGSR, Society for General Systems Research
http://www.newciv.org/ISSS_Primer/asem07ih.html
GSR:
a biologist: Ludwig von Bertalanffy
an economist: Jay Forrester
a physiologist: Warren McCulloch
a mathematician: Norbert Wiener
See: isomorphism http://www.thefreedictionary.com/isomorphy
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