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The Aim ... Is To Provide A Clear And Rigorous Basis For Determining When A Causal Ordering Can Be Said To Hold Between Two Variables Or Groups Of Variables In A Model . . . . The Concepts Refer To A Model-a System Of Equations-and Not To The 'real' World The Model Purports To Describe.

The World Is Vast, Beautiful, And Fascinating, Even Awe-inspiring - But Impersonal. It Demands Nothing Of Me, And Allows Me To Demand Nothing Of It.

Engineering, Medicine, Business, Architecture And Painting Are Concerned Not With The Necessary But With The Contingent - Not With How Things Are But With How They Might Be - In Short, With Design.

A Complex Decision Is Like A Great River, Drawing From Its Many Tributaries The Innumerable Premises Of Which It Is Constituted.

Because He Treats The World As Rather Empty And Ignores The Interrelatedness Of All Things (so Stupefying To Thought And Action), Administrative Man Can Make Decisions With Relatively Simple Rules Of Thumb That Do Not Make Impossible Demands Upon His Capacity For Thought.