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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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AUTOGNOSIS 3)

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The study of the conditions of conscious knowledge (Adapted from W. DILTHEY: Gesammelte Schriften, 1922-1935)

This is a step forward from SOCRATES "Gnoti seauton", His membership of the Athenian culture of his time was implicit for him and at the same time subtly preforming his way of being and thinking,

Such cultural and historical conditions are proper to any individual observer.

Being this observer inserted in his specific culture at a precise historical moment, he thus acquires peculiar reference frames in some well defined psychical and mental environment.

This setting has been considered by Dilthey in his "Critique of speculative systems and nature explanation starting from consciousness facts and the historical march of world thinking" (Note: spanish translation used: the german original could not be located). Dilthey describes the result as "reality for myself".

Accordingly, autognosis is (or should be!) a permanent process , but at the same time subordinated to what has already be acquired by learning and training through former experience. It is a sort of sedimentation in an autopoietic way. Dilthey uses Goethe's term "Protophenomena". He also quotes BENCKE and says: "thought as such…analyses experience"…of course within the already acquired mental and conceptual frame.

Autognosis is closely related to modern hermeneutics' as proposed by Dilthey in his 1900 book on the "Origins of Hermeneutics

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  • 2) Methodology or model
  • 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
  • 4) Human sciences
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