Maybe you were the first to use the terms “open and closed systems” within Objectivist discourse and publications, but to claim that you “coined” them is utter nonsense. They have been in widespread usage within systems theory and related fields for well over a half century in works by such people as von Bertalanffy and Vernadsky, some of this actually going back as far as the 1920s, if not earlier. Please...
David Kelley,
Maybe you were the first to use the terms “open and closed systems” within Objectivist discourse and publications, but to claim that you “coined” them is utter nonsense. They have been in widespread usage within systems theory and related fields for well over a half century in works by such people as von Bertalanffy and Vernadsky, some of this actually going back as far as the 1920s, if not earlier. Please...
Also, they originally came from thermodynamics...