"However, we can avoid that result [entitative or substance ontology] if we conceive many systems of nature ... as simultaneously and co-primordially a set of lower-scale entities or components, a structure of relations among components, and a process (or processes) that constitutes and maintains the structure. ... We may say that components (themselves systems), structure, and process exhibit ontological parity ... A system equally is its parts, is a structure, and is a process (if it has all three, which not all systems do ...). I do not mean each is identical to each other and to the system, but that ... - all things being equal - all three have equal ontological claim on constituting the system. Knowledge of the system requires knowledge of all three."

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