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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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CLUE 1)2)

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Any observation or information that contributes to a better understanding of a process or situation.

Of course, a clue gains its value only for the observer who is able to give it a meaning within a wider frame of references.

Photographic plates stored in a closed drawer that became veiled side by side with a sample of a yet not well known mineral became the first clue of this new phenomenon at the end of the 19 C.

But the clue made sense only for Becquerel and the Curie's because they already knew about ionizing radiations. Quite numerous scientific discoveries resulted in the same way from a clever interpretation of some clue.

In a lighter vein, clues were always meaningful for the keen eyes and acute perceptions of Sherlock Holmes… but only for him!

→ Causality; Effects (side); Predictive event; Serendipity

Categories

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

Publisher

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

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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (2020). Title of the entry. In Charles François (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics (2). Retrieved from www.systemspedia.org/[full/url]

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