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POSIWID

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“The purpose of a system is what it does (POSIWID)”

From Wikipedia (July 23 2024, 8:21 AM -4):

When a system's side effects or unintended consequences reveal that its behavior is poorly understood, then the POSIWID perspective can balance political understandings of system behavior with a more straightforwardly descriptive view

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