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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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COMMUNITY (Epistemic) 3)4)

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A human communication system which is extended in space and time.

This concept, proposed by B. HOLZNER (1968) and here adapted from L. THAYER (1972, p.112), is thus explained by this last author: "Those who have been similarly informed, who have similar frames of references, similar epistemologies, similar "reality testing" procedures, and who thus mutually validate each other's ways of knowing, can be said to be members of the same epistemic community" (Ibid).

Validation is always referred to a prior system of values, concepts and behaviors accorded within the community through an explicit or implicit process of consensus, possibly shifting as time goes on.

The crossing by individuals or groups of the boundaries of an epistemic community and their intrusion in another one, is generally known as "transculturation" and generates in many cases very serious problems of poor communication and intolerance, which may produce violent conflicts.

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

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