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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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INDUCTION (Principle of) 1)3)

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"The future will in certain respects resemble the past "(J. BRYANT, 1991, p. 150)

This means that induction, as a meaning creation process, implies a hidden belief in coherent and stable correspondances between some observations, stored memories and reference frames

BRYANT expresses this as follows: "… induction may be explained as the product of neural linkage between engrams, or, in psychological terms, as associations between ideas"(p. 117 and 150-51)

This is very different from the deduction process which in BRYANT terms"… is the act of making an engram generalization from the premises "or… " the process or deriving statements (called deductive conclusions) from some fixed set of statements (called deductive premises)"(Ibid)

Induction creates new combinations, that normally lead to modifications in frames of references

Deduction merely explicits already existing implicit knowledge

→ Abduction

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