TY - GEN ID - cogprints187 UR - http://cogprints.org/187/ A1 - Emmeche, Claus Y1 - 2000/05// N2 - In this note some epistemological problems in general theories about living systems are considered; in particular, the question of hidden connections between different areas of experience, such as folk biology and scientific biology, and hidden connections between central concepts of theoretical biology, such as function, semiosis, closure and life. KW - closure KW - emergence KW - emergent properties KW - life KW - experiential knowledge KW - concept of function KW - biofunction KW - functionality KW - semiosis KW - biosemiotics KW - prototypes KW - self-organization KW - autopoiesis KW - autocatalysis KW - semantic closure KW - theoretical biology KW - reification KW - abstraction KW - generality KW - scientism. TI - Closure, Function, Emergence, Semiosis and Life: The Same Idea? Reflections on the Concrete and the Abstract in Theoretical Biology. SP - 187 AV - public EP - 197 ER -