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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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LANGUAGES: Special and common 1)3)4)

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J. ENGELBERG makes the following comment: "Every area of specialization possesses a special language. Its existence magnifies the efficiency and power of thought and communication within that area; however it also isolates practitioners of various fields from one another, and from non-specialists as well.

"By contrast, the language of integrative study is the common language… This language seems to have been devised precisely to meet the needs of the realm of wholes, the realm in which every person ultimately has to live. It is reasonable to assume that natural language evolved to facilitate integration" (1991, p.11).

Unfortunately, even the cybernetic-systemic language tends to specialize, and we should try to limit this tendency as much as possible by using an absolute minimum of specific vocabulary (and still less, jargon) and create it in the most simple terms, in order to remain comprehensible for any specialist, and also for common people.

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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