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From the philosophical point of view, “complexity” is not an “answer” word, but a “problem” word, which has reopened a question: is it possible to reduce the idea of scientific rationality—if not the idea of rationality tout court—to the model of rationality outlined by classical science?
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Ceruti, M. (2020). Complexity. In: Vercellone, F., Tedesco, S. (eds) Glossary of Morphology. Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51324-5_17
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