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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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"A logical calculus of distinctions and indications" (K. KRIPPENDORFF, 1986, p.44).

This calculus was developed by G. SPENCER-BROWN (1969). It is basically "an arithmetic whose geometry as yet has no numerical measure: and astonishing as it may seem, the propositions of logic, as well as those of wider and more powerful applications, turn out to be wholly derivable from calculi so constructed" (p. XI).

The real scope of this calculus is still unclear, but SPENCER-BROWN seems to have done for logic in general what G. BOOLE did for binary logic, i.e. give it its general axiomatics and codification.

The first significant derivation of this calculus has been giving a firm formal basis to self-reference. This was done by F.A. VARELA (1975). Somewhat later J.A. GOGUEN and F.A. VARELA, applied the concepts of distinction, duality and complementarity to systems (1979).

The subject demands a serious study of SPENCER-BROWN's own work.

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