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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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REDUNDANCY (Knowledge implicit in) 3)

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O.S. AKHMANOVA states: "The redundancy of a text is a consequence of the fact that the different elements – words, and also parts of words, letters are not independent from each other. There are probabilistic connections between these elements, determined by the probabilistic structure of the language. It is just the knowledge (possibly unconscious) of this structure that allows us to fill in the abbreviations of the text" (1960, p.199).

"Probabilistic" should be understood as "defining more or less probable connections, in accordance with the specific constraints that characterizes the language used".

Such constraints per se are precisely "anti probabilistic" and our knowledge of them is what allows us a significant "reading" of any text, even more or less pruned of its redundancies, by guessing "what should come now".

Of course, redundancy exists only when there is a meta-knowledge. Who does not know Japanese cannot perceive any redundancy in a message in Japanese, even if it is perfectly present therein.

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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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