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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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BAYESIAN SYLLOGISM 1)3)

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The Bayesian syllogism has been introduced by V.V. NALIMOV and is based on Bayes probabilistic logic (1982, p. 284).

In NALIMOV's own terms: "It becomes possible to speak of the Bayesian syllogism. It may be regarded as a generalization of ARISTOTLE'S syllogism (i.e. the categorical syllogism in which two initial categoric assertions linked by the common middle term yield the third judgement called the inference…, an ssertion of absolute value, independent of any conditions).

"Whereas in the Aristotelian syllogism the inference is a logically clear assertion, in the Bayesian syllogism the inference is the redistribution of weights in the system of initial value concepts, determining the trend of thought on the logically structured level"(Ibid)

In a later work, NALIMOV adds: "In my interpretation, the Bayesian formula well known in statistics acquires a new meaning. From an auxiliary computational formula, broadly used in mathematical statistics, it turns into one setting the logic of propositions"(1985, p. 28)

→ Bayes theorem; Bayesian probabilities; Parallel distributed processing

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