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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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INTUITION 3)

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"A proposal solution to a problem without using a logical process" (St. KRIPPNER – pers. comm.).

According to H. POINCARÉ: "It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover" (1938)

Intuition is generally a "short cut", based on the formerly acquired mental algorithms – which may be mere beliefs – and produces a proposal by analogy often unconscious. Of course, the validity and usefulness of the proposal must be confirmed by making a critical appraisal preferably before and, in the last resort, after any practical experiment.

R. RODRIGUEZ DELGADO wrote: "Abstract intuition has not only perceptive aspects, but is also a qualitative synthesis of conceptual and affective experiences.

Space, time, duration, mobility, immobility, etc… can be experienced from within or can be formulated in definitions. In the first case, they are ineffable intuitions, in the second, communicable concepts"… and "Intuitions, as perceptions, are absolutely true as individual experiences, and cannot be rationally refuted, but they cannot pretend to be gnoseological truths or forms of the external reality. Reason can, of course, effect some comprehension of their mechanism and by this means intuition, perception and concept can be integrated, instead of remaining in frequent opposition "(1956)

→ Autopoiesis; Cybernetics (2 order); Observer; Ontological skepticism

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