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 * The system is represented in a quantitative model which simulates its performance under different operational conditions something only possible if the system is simple and the context mechanical.
 * Classical OR Systems analysis and systems engineering are most appropriate for solving problems.
+| Mechanical-pluralist contexts responded to the kind of systems design method proposed by Churchman, and by Mason and Mitroff in their 'strategic assumption surfacing and testing' methodology.
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+! scope="row"| Systemic
 | Cybernetic approaches, such as advocated by Beer and in the socio-technical systems literature.
 Suitable for tackling problems associated with systemic-unitary contexts.
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-! scope="row"| Systemic
-| Mechanical-pluralist contexts responded to the kind of systems design method proposed by Churchman, and by Mason and Mitroff in their 'strategic assumption surfacing and testing' methodology.
 | The soft systems thinking proposed by Ackoff and by Checkland could minister to problems set in systemic-pluralist problem-contexts. For example, Ackof's 'interactive planning' exhibited, through the participative principle, a method to cope with pluralism and, through the proposed design for a 'responsive decision system', an attempt to come to terms with systemicity
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