We have no aces to what the world is, to ontology, only to descriptions of the world... that is to say, epistemology... We should never say something in the world: 'it is a system'; only: it may be described as a system'.


Checkland 1983, p. 671 cited in Stephen K. Probert (1998) "The Metaphysical Foundations of Soft and Hard Information Systems Methodologies". In: Robert Macredie (1998) Modelling for Added Value. p. 86

Peter Checkland Quotes

We have no aces to what the world is, to ontology, only to descriptions of the world... that is to say, epistemology... We should never say something ...

We have no aces to what the world is, to ontology, only to descriptions of the world... that is to say, epistemology... We should never say something ...

We have no aces to what the world is, to ontology, only to descriptions of the world... that is to say, epistemology... We should never say something ...

We have no aces to what the world is, to ontology, only to descriptions of the world... that is to say, epistemology... We should never say something ...