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If I were constructing a system I would simply define each element, relationship, and process with rigor.
Dispatches on this: I didn't know how difficult Luhman is as a writer. He's got this common disease of German academics to assume that you're already clued into his conversation. But reader -- I am not clued into his conversation.
Today by chance I happened on a copy of Niklas Luhman's "Essays on Self-Reference" so we're probably going to get some more content along these lines.