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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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"The theory of the relations between the signs and their users"(D. GERNERT, 2000a) p. 156)

According to GERNERT: "From the very beginning, pragmatic information has been characterized by the "property to change the receiving system "(quoted from KORNWACHS and von LUCADOU, 1982) or more formally, by the property to alter structure and/or behavior of the receiving system"

He adds: "Two constituents of pragmatic information are termed "novelty" and "confirmation". A message only repeating well known stuff contains no novelty and hence no pragmatic information (here again, a comparison with syntactic information is worthwhile). On the other hand, a message in an unknown foreign language can bring about no impact upon a receiver -it carries no "confirmation", that is, no relation to the receiver's state of knowledge, predisposition, or information requirement. Pragmatic information requires both novelty and a concrete relation to the receiver's predisposition: the amount of pragmatic information will rise as novelty and/or confirmation increase"(Ibid p. 159-60)

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