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234 months ago

Barbara R. Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:

French > English

Subject:

Medical

Level of diffculty:

Easy / medium

Word or term in question:

L'equifinalite

Context:

L'equifinalite des elements se

Keywords:

Von Bertalanffy's General Syst

 

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234 months ago

  See profile wrote:

Equifinality

My comment:

Equifinality of similar elements can be linked to different initial elements.

Comments by other colleagues on this answer:

234 months ago

Jennifer White  See profile wrote:

Isn't this answer identical to mine? Why repeat it?

234 months ago

Jennifer White  See profile wrote:

Isn't this answer identical to mine? Why repeat it?

234 months ago

Karen Vincent-Jones  See profile wrote:

the same final state can be reached from different initial conditions

My comment:

the same final state may be reached from different initial conditions (also known as equifinality)

My references:

http://www.unikk.ch/course/Seiten/lesson1.1.htm
This useful website is part of Von Bertalanffy's 'General Systems Theory'

234 months ago

Karen Vincent-Jones  See profile wrote:

equifinality

My comment:

must be......though it's all Greek to me!

My references:

equifinality the property of allowing or having the same effect or result from different events.
www.answers.com/topic/equifinality -

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234 months ago

Jennifer White  See profile wrote:

equifinality

My comment:

must be......though it's all Greek to me!

My references:

equifinality the property of allowing or having the same effect or result from different events.
www.answers.com/topic/equifinality -

The asker rated this answer best