BCSSS

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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MEANING (Meaning of) 3)

D. Mac KAY states: "A distinction should be carefully made between the notion of meaning to the receiver… and the notion of intended meaning (by the transmitter) and generally accepted meaning." (1969, p.72).

- Intended meaning is the meaning which the transmitter tries to convey to the receiver or receivers. It depends on the level and soundness of knowledge and intentions of the transmitter.

- Generally accepted meaning is that which is accepted by consensus by a majority of the concerned people (irrespective from its intrinsic factual truth or falsity, while it is generally presented as "truth ").

- Meaning to the receiver is what the receiver understand from the message received as it evokes in him a complex background of former reactions and knowledge.

The receivers views may or not coincide 1) with the transmitters interpretation; 2) with the common consensus and the generally admitted "truth".

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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