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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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METAPHORIC FRAMEWORK 1)2)4)

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H. BENKING and A. JUDGE observe that the "intellectual product" of international conferences of all kinds "takes the form of complex declarations and programmes"

They consider that "the challenge is to configurate the conceptual elements into a global comprehensible form. This is necessary to counteract the tendency to generate an asymmetric aglomeration of elements"(1994)

While this is obvious, it is also obvious that the actual form of the post-conference declarations is sometimes a true reflection of contradictory intentions and interests of the participants… and even of the muddled thinking of some of them.

The authors add: "In addition to its mnemonic function, a metaphoric framework can then highlight the possible missing elements as well as suggesting ways of understanding interesting functional relationships between such elements"(Ibid)

This is again obvious, but transparency may be in some cases ignored by some who want to better dissimulate covert intentions. Moreover, the selection of the metaphoric framework itself could easily become the source (or the pretext!) of endless and inconclusive debate

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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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