CLARIFICATION OF THE PURPOSES AND TASKS OF THE GENERAL THEORY OF SYSTEMS

Abstract

The article is devoted to the clarification of the goal and objectives of the general theory of systems. The existing formulations of the goal and objectives of the general theory of systems are considered and the author’s revised and extended formulations are proposed. The proposed objectives of the general theory of systems include three applied objectives and three fundamental objectives, which should be solved before solving the applied objectives. The applied objectives of the general theory of systems are: the description of a system’s existence by means of patterns and primitives, description of an object’s behaviour based on secondary properties and laws, and verification of the object description validity. The fundamental objectives include the definition of representative sets of primitives, patterns, secondary properties and laws, as well as the development of a methodology for verification Прикладные исследования, технологии 99 of the object description validity based on finding the rules of knowledge and defects in the found knowledge.