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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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LAW DISCOVERY 2)3)

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H. SIMON states: "Law discovery means only find patterns in the data: whether the pattern will continue to hold for new data that are observed subsequently will be decided in the course of testing the law, not discovering it… The fact that a process can extract pattern from finite data sets says nothing about the predictive power of patterns so extracted for new observations. As we move from pattern detection to prediction, we move from the theory of discovery of processes to the theory of processes for testing laws" (1973, p.471).

G.S.theories strongly enhance our ability to discover processes of very general character. H. SIMON's difference between process discovery and laws testing parallels M. BUNGE's concepts about the need to specify through pertinent data any system that we seek to inquire by applying G.S.theories (see GSTs: Epistemological evaluation).

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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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