title: Dialectic thinking as a means of understanding systems-in-development: relevance to Rogers's principles.
abstract: This paper explores the dialectical noncausal category of determination as a method of explaining human development and examines its relationship to Rogers's principles of homeodynamics. The relationships among determinism, causality, and lawfulness are discussed, and the categories of determination are reviewed.
mesh_terms: D006803:Human Development; D006801:Humans; D009729:Nursing; D010684:Philosophy; D011582:Psychological Theory; D013598:Systems Theory