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International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics

2nd Edition, as published by Charles François 2004 Presented by the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science Vienna for public access.

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The International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics was first edited and published by the system scientist Charles François in 1997. The online version that is provided here was based on the 2nd edition in 2004. It was uploaded and gifted to the center by ASC president Michael Lissack in 2019; the BCSSS purchased the rights for the re-publication of this volume in 200?. In 2018, the original editor expressed his wish to pass on the stewardship over the maintenance and further development of the encyclopedia to the Bertalanffy Center. In the future, the BCSSS seeks to further develop the encyclopedia by open collaboration within the systems sciences. Until the center has found and been able to implement an adequate technical solution for this, the static website is made accessible for the benefit of public scholarship and education.

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A PRIORI (Kantian) 3)

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F. GONSETH discussed the validity of KANT's (1724-1804) a priori, when viewed as an absolute and unquestionable beginning for philosophy. He did not accept that "the debate is closed even before starting" when it is admitted that a priori are the "sine qua non of all ARCHETYPE 39 knowledge and judgements" as they set the very forms under which experience must unavoidedly manifest to us"( 1955a, p. 6)

In fact "compare a priori with the results of experience ( of whatever kind) is simply compare them with themselves. Nothing can emerge of this, if not that they must be as they are"(lbid)

Indeed, the a priori is established by the observer ( supposedly being the infallible philosopher) within his own frame of references and we are led to the autopoietic critique of the ways we observe reality and of what observation amounts to in these bio-psychological terms.

In short, no a priori can establish an absolute starting block, being out of reach of falsifiable research of any kind.

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