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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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"Adaptability through rivalry" (H.G. BURGER, 1967, p.209-22)

According to BURGER: "… all types of evolution are different in structure but similar in process. They consist of a rivalrous polymorphism that awaits environmental change. Up through the ethological level the change is exogenous, such as climatic. At the ethnic and intercultural levels, an additional type of change becomes available through perception " (p.209).

Polymorphism is equivalent to variety. As to rivalry, it should not necessarily bring about the elimination of the (presently) ill-fitted. They can remain in a minority position as a variety store until circumstances change.

BURGER applied his concept from biology to sociology and even linguistics (polysemy). It never became widely recognized, possibly because of its "struggle for life" undertones, arguably more appearent than real.

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  • 1) General information
  • 2) Methodology or model
  • 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
  • 4) Human sciences
  • 5) Discipline oriented

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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science(2020).

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