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The notion of “systemhood” that was suggested by Rosen4 is addressed in this paper by proposing a collection of system properties that may be considered common to all systems under investigation within the framework of general systems theory. Such properties are interpretation-free, and it is shown how they differ from the classical properties of sets and thus from “set-ness”.
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