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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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CHINESE SYSTEMS CONCEPTS AND METHODOLOGIES 1)

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The authors describe as follows the concepts in Chinese thinking that form the basis of a Chinese systems methodology: "The basic theme of Wuli, Shili and Renli contends that wuli (regularities in objective existence), shili (ways of seeing and doing) and renli (patters underlying human relations) constitute a differenciated whole that conditions systems projects. WSR suggests that we should design and employ appropriate methods to address and tackle wuli, shili and renli elements in a theoretically informed and systemic way"(2000, p. 11)

"Such relational philosophies also suggest that the Tao (morality), Zhi (knowledge) and Xing (action) of human beings are systemically conditioning and supporting one another and, therefore, cannot be "artificially"isolated from one another"(Ibid, p. 12)

There is of course much more to it and the subject deserves close attention from systemists in general.

The whole of first issue of volume 13 of SPAR is dedicated to Chinese systems concepts.

→ China in systems science; Wuli; Shili; Renli

Categories

  • 1) General information
  • 2) Methodology or model
  • 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
  • 4) Human sciences
  • 5) Discipline oriented

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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science(2020).

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