BCSSS

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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FALSIFICATION (Cross) 3)

A practical way to falsify (in POPPER's sense) theories about the workings of natural systems.

Such a method is proposed by M. CHRISTIE (2001) because complex natural systems cannot be subjected to experimental control. Even computer simulation may be inconclusive because it depends on the characters of the model, as derived from the set of hypothesis, Moreover the computer model may in part result of choices dictated by computational logical (binary) necessities.

CHRISTIE states that only cross-falsification is useful, i.e. by creating an interplay between two antithetic theories (for ex. that chlorinated components produce the ozone hole, or that they don't).

If they demonstrably do not, some other explanation should be found and different forecasts about the respective effects could be proposed. The observed deviations from the respective predictions should reveal the real superiority of one theory over another.

Categories

  • 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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