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nonlinearity  

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  • Nonlinearity is a central idea of chaos theory and distinguishes how chaos theory conceptualizes systems differently from other scientific paradigms. Nonlinearity is used by a multitude of scholars in various disciplines to explain vast and often disproportional changes in a system through complex and often unknown interactions within a system. [Source: Encyclopedia of Crisis Management; Nonlinearity]

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