ABOUT THE OBJECT AND SUBJECT OF RESEARCH OF THE GENERAL THEORY OF SYSTEMS AS A META-SCIENCE

Abstract

The article examines the problems of creating General System Theory (GST) from the perspective of modern epistemology and methodology of science and suggests methods for solving them. In order for the totality of information about systems to become a science, it must have an explicit, real and intentional definition of the idealized object "system in general", have its own disciplinary system paradigm and disciplinary matrix. And in order for the theory of systems to become general, it is necessary that the system paradigm proposed by it, the ontological concepts of "the system in general", the proposed terminology and research methods have a universal or transdisciplinary character. It is noted that the existing definitions of the term "system" do not allow us to identify a system-forming factor and, consequently, to designate an isomorphism that provides the necessary universality and transdisciplinarity of GST. It is shown how the worldview position based on the synthesis of holism and unicentrism allows systemic dualism. The ontological understanding of the "system in general" as an object that transforms matter and energy according to a single order. It is shown that a single order, which determines the unity and wholeness of the object, is a system-forming factor and provides the required system isomorphism. This allows you to build models of the order of development of the system in time and space, to build a hierarchy of already identified system features: elements, connections, orderliness, emergence, wholeness and unity, etc. Practical examples show how objects of different nature can be studied as a system.