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  -

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