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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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INQUIRY (Cycle of) 2)

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P. LEDINGTON describes as follows the "five steps (that) provide an organized approach to inquiring about the situation":

"First, investigate the situation and gain an intuitive understanding of it;

"Second, grasp some basic names for ideas that are felt relevant to that understanding;

"Third, formalise the ideas into models, using some rules of formalisation;

"Fourth, compare the models with the features of the situation and assess the areas of match and mis-match;

"Fifth, evaluate attitudes towards the situation in terms of problems and courses of action based upon the revised understanding that has emerged from the formal process of inquiry" (1992, p.51).

As systems and situations have the bad habit of never stay put, S. BEER should surely add: and start it all over again, and again, as many times as needed.

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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