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Everything I've encountered on "systems theory" suggests to me that there is no such thing. The writings generally consist of a large quantity of words about the definitions of other words, but no mathematics and no predictions that were not already there before pulling it into the ambit of "systems".
Are there any counterexamples to this?
My impression is that there are a few core ideas which get turned into frameworks by different people every few years because rediscovery + the generative effect are more fun/epiphany inducing than reviewing the entire literature.
WRT predictions: systems theory is about modelling, and modelling is always making implicit predictions about the causal structure of the system. The better 'systems theory frameworks' encourage turning these into explicit predictions/tests.