Uexküllian Planmässigkeit.
In strict opposition to the prevailing positivist conception of nature as senseless and deprived of meaning Jakob von Uexküll claimed that a certain planmässigkeit was operative in nature. This idea however might be taken to mean that organic evolution is not itself a creative process but a gradual,...
| Publicado en: | Sign Systems Studies Vol. 32; no. 1-2; pp. 73 - 98 |
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University of Tartu
2004
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