{{Short description|System about other systems}}

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A '''metasystem''' or '''meta-system'''{{DEFAULTSORT:Meta-System}} is a "system about other systems",<ref>{{cite journal | date = July 2000 | doi = 10.1002/j.2334-5837.2000.tb00470.x | first = Kent D. | issn = 2334-5837 | issue = 1 | journal = INCOSE International Symposium | last = Palmer | pages = 889–904 | title = 9.6 Meta‐systems Engineering | url = https://doi.org/10.1002/j.2334-5837.2000.tb00470.x | url-access = subscription | volume = 10 }}</ref> such as describing, generalizing, modelling, or analyzing the other system(s). It links the concepts of a system and meta. Aurelio Peccei conceived of environmental degradation, poverty, population health challenges, urban decay, and criminality as comprising an interrelated, generalized meta-problem — a meta-system of problems he termed the problematic.<ref>{{cite web | access-date = 2016-05-13 | archive-date = 2014-02-03 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140203125912/sunsite.utk.edu/FINS/loversofdemocracy/Predicament.PTI.pdf | date = 1970 | pages = 12–13 | title = The Predicament of Mankind | url = https://sunsite.utk.edu/FINS/loversofdemocracy/Predicament.PTI.pdf }}</ref>

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