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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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KNOWLEDGE (Principle of incomplete) 3)

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"The model embodied in a control system is necessarily incomplete" (F. HEYLIGHEN, 1991a, p.9).

HEYLIGHEN, who enounces this principle, sees it as a consequence of various other limitative principles which came to the fore during this century:

- W. HEISENBERG's uncertainty principle

- A. EINSTEIN's relativity principle ("of the finiteness of the speed of light", implying that the moment the information is registered, it is already obsolete to some extent).

- H. SIMON's principle of bounded rationality, "stating that a decision maker in a real world situation will never have all information necessary for making. an optimal decision"

- L. LÖFGREN's principle of the partiality of self-reference "implying that a system cannot represent itself completely, and hence cannot have complete knowledge of how its own actions may feed back into the perturbations" (p.10).

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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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