This is a proposal to improve and articulate the connection between systems studies and the accumulated body of knowledge. This paper was presented by the author at the Society for General Systems Research Congress held in Los Angeles, 27-31 May 1985. Building on ideas from Popper and Peirce, among others, Warfield introduces his concept of a 'cosmic partition' containing the divisions Library, Phaneron and Residue. LIST OF TRANSPARENCIES USED WITH THIS TALK: 1. On the Choice of Frames for Systems Studies (title page) 2. A Generic Frame 3. The Cosmic Partition 4. Relating the Blocks of the Cosmic Partition 5. Three Axioms of the Phaneron 6. The Axiom of the Situation 7. Requirements on Frames - I 8. Requirements on Frames - II 9. Three Specific Frames 

 The paper "On the Choice of Frames for Systems Studies" was shipped to Fenwick Library Special Collections, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA on 23 October 2000. I am not sure but I believe that GMU Library probably DOES NOT have the transparencies used with the talk. However Rose did find the transparencies in 2011. This paper was first presented at SGSR conference in May, 1985. A paper offprint of full text is at Fenwick Library, Box 09/33, C0016, SCRC, George Mason University Libraries. It was one of two papers which Warfield presented at that conference. (The other paper was titled: "Some Laws and Principles of Design" and the two papers were given together, one after another, as I recall)    (r.w. circa 2001, updated Jan 11. 2018)