Fritz, Richard G., "The Effect of Linguistic Structure on the Analytic Paradigm of System Dynamics", 1988
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The purpose of this research is to describe the impact that linguistic structure has had on the method of modeling in system dynamics. In the structuralist framework, language is viewed as a system of signs which structure our patterns of thought and influence our behavior. Learned languages are incorporated into the structure of the unconscious which then contains and constrains the capacity for communication and discourse. Linguistic systems are not isomorphic. Thus, when the language used in communicating social, political, and economic ideas changes, (i.e., from verbal to static linear mathematics; or from verbal to dynamic nonlinear mathematics), this affects the theoretical structure of the discipline. The symbolic linguistic structure employed in system dynamic models offers a powerful alternative methodology for scientists to investigate social reality.
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