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Two concepts in the social sciences and psychiatry are useful: the idea of equifinality and the idea of multifinality.
Dan Agin: A Demon in the Head II: Early Days and Murderous Violence 2009
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In parallel, multifinality describes a system in which any initial state, impact, or "cause" can produce many different outcomes depending on circumstance.
Dan Agin: A Demon in the Head II: Early Days and Murderous Violence 2009
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The caveat is that human behavior can be expected to exhibit both equifinality and multifinality, and this needs to be kept in mind in any attempt to isolate causes.
Dan Agin: A Demon in the Head II: Early Days and Murderous Violence 2009
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The caveat is that human behavior can be expected to exhibit both equifinality and multifinality, and this needs to be kept in mind in any attempt to isolate causes.
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Two concepts in the social sciences and psychiatry are useful: the idea of equifinality and the idea of multifinality.
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In parallel, multifinality describes a system in which any initial state, impact, or
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Whereas multitasking refers to seeking multiple outputs from multiple simultaneous inputs, and is impossible, multifinality refers to attaining alternative objectives from the same inputs, and is eminently possible.
Productivity for Precious Snowflakes Tiago Forte 2016
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