ANNOTATION:Warfield's ideal of "Referential Transparency" for all fields of science is developed, with praise for the thinking of C.S. Peirce, Willard Gibbs, Harlan Mills, Abraham Kaplan, all philosophers who have contributed to Warfield's vision of the nature of scientific study and reasoning.

This is the manuscript version in English, which John had prepared for the 1988 Annual meeting of the American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS), the paper was to be presented at 2:30 p.m. Feb. 12, at Hynes Convention Center, Boston, as part of the SCIENCE AS A SYSTEM symposium chaired by Russell Ackoff. The paper was never presented, due to a bad snowstorm in Boston on February 12. John never got to that conference; his flight from La Guardia to Boston circled quite a while, never landed, returned him to New York, and he came back home. The paper was not published in English, but was published in Polish, later, under the title "Proste Modele Systemowe Oparte Na Skomplikowanych Zalozeniach: Klucz do Spojnosci w Zlozonym Uniwersum".(Simple System Models Based on Sophisticated Assumptions). In the summer after the missed Boston conference, Warfield sent the English language manuscript to Gasparski, editor of the Polish journal. The article was translated into Polish, and was published in Warsaw, in the journal Zagadnienia Naukoznawstwa (Science of Science), Polish Academny of Sciences, No. 3-4, 1989, pp. 653-662.