In my work, I find it helpful to "structural observations" as those which
make a cause and effect linkage.
For example, I think we are talking structurally when we say, "The high
tax rates are causing business to make less investment," or "When you
yell at me, this leads me to yell back at you."
I believe that making structural observations (and hypotheses) is at the
heart of systems thinking.
I published an article on "How to Find Structure" in _The Systems
Thinker_, published by Pegasus Communications. You can obtain reprints
from them, or it's on the web at
http://world.std.com/~rkarash/structure/
-- Rick
p.s. Pegasus is http://www.pegasuscom.com
On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, John H. Dicus wrote:
> I would appreciate hearing the benefit of the thinking on this list around
> the use of the word structure.
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