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Systems theory is the transdisciplinary study of systems, i.e. cohesive groups of interrelated, interdependent components that can be natural or artificial...

A referent (/ˈrɛfərənt/ REF-ər-ənt) is a person or thing to which a name – a linguistic expression or other symbol – refers. For example, in the sentence...

potential harm (or other unwanted coercion). Beneficiaries (technically referents) of security may be persons and social groups, objects and institutions...

identified those five bases of power as coercive, reward, legitimate, referent, and expert. This was followed by Raven's subsequent addition in 1965 of...

or place – is a name which ordinarily is taken to uniquely identify its referent in the world. As such it presents particular challenges for theories of...

is called the referent of the first object. A name is usually a phrase or expression, or some other symbolic representation. Its referent may be anything...

operandi), most of the Latin referent words and phrases are perceived as foreign to English. In a few cases, English referents have replaced the original...

link from some other website (the referrer) to that web resource (the referent). A web resource may be (for example) a website, web page, or web directory...

ownership, or any other attribute that may change without changing the referent's identity); is opaque (preferably a 'dumb number': a well known pattern...

although the pronouns can have a referent, they cannot have a direct relationship with the referent where the referent selects the pronoun. For instance...

maps which name was intended to go with which star (or stars), and the referents changed over time. The name Toliman originates with Jacobus Golius' 1669...

There are several real or apparent name conflicts between different Solar System bodies, in spite of efforts to give every named body a distinct name. Most...

literary texts. An important theory formulated in the book is the absent referent, which she uses to explain the fact that people keep eating meat, and is...

OBV) third person is a grammatical-person marking that distinguishes a referent that is less important to the discourse from one that is more important...

Marco Polo Hernández (June 2012). "The Mexican Colonial Term 'Chino' Is a Referent of Afrodescendant". The Journal of Pan African Studies. 5 (5): 124–143...

within a given context. The entity identified by a name is called its referent. A personal name identifies, not necessarily uniquely, a specific individual...

describe the systems they lived under before 1989? [Totalitarianism] is a useful word, and everyone knows what it means as a general referent. Problems arise...

symbols' referents. This is what we were discussing earlier, and it is what the hitherto undefined term "grounding" refers to. A symbol system alone, whether...

more common is a Dual Propositus Tri-relational Kin-term which has one referent whose relationship is defined with respect to two anchor points (propositi)...

words that are used with noun phrases to mark the identifiability of the referents of the noun phrases. The category of articles constitutes a part of speech...