Sent to GMU September 27, 2007. This document was written by John Warfield as a correspondence to the special collections library in July 2000, at the time his papers were being considered for archiving. In 2001, after the Warfield Special Collection was housed at Fenwick Library, this document became part of a booklet titled "Guide to the Warfield Collection" with added end notes and reference annotations written by Rose Warfield. Warfield describes the history of the beginnings of his approach to the study of complexity and gives his list of eleven ideas or concepts of major importance in dealing with complex situations. The author calls these eleven ideas "Early Warfield Conclusions." The eleven "conclusions" formed the early foundation of Warfield's continuing efforts in research and teaching over a period of thirty years to achieve workable methodologies for dealing with complex situations. 1. Situation-independent Science 2. Complexity as a source of Commonality 3. Science-based emphasis on approaches to Complexity 4. Necessity for a Human Component of the Science base 5. Necessity of Cooperative Work 6. Necessity for Organizational Understanding 7. Importance of the Philosophical Literature 8. The Role of Mathematics 9. Systems Engineering 10. Need for stronger planning stages and stronger science of Logic-based Design 11. Use of already strong Analysis and Disciplinary methods ================================

Although this document is complete for purposes of the "Guide" in which it was printed, it was at the same time "UNFINISHED" AS EVIDENCED BY THE DRAFT PAPERS WHICH ARE ALSO PLACED IN THE FOLDER. The draft was designed to be a longer paper, but has much missing information in a series of tables which Warfield had prepared with purpose of filling in later. In the year 2007, when asked about the possibility of finishing the document Warfield said no, he preferred to leave it as it was. He felt that to add anything in September 2007 would detract from a document which represented his thinking in 2000, that his work had gone forward since then and today he might put different answers into the blank tables. He believed it was preferable to leave the document as an unfinished paper from the year 2000, not 2007. He said he had started and never finished the paper, having begun it at a very busy time in 2000 when we were purchasing and moving into a new home in Florida. At that time all his work papers had been stacked up and boxed for moving, and he had never gotten back to finishing this particular document. So it is still unfinished. (r.w. circa 2007)