There are a million ways to skin a cat. The principle that in open systems a given end state can be reached by many potential means. Also meaning that a goal can be reached in many ways. The term and concept is due to Hans Driesch, the developmental biologist, later applied by Ludwig von Bertalanffy, the founder of general systems theory, and by William T. Powers, the founder of perceptual control theory.
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