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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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METASYSTEM 1)2)

"A system over and above a system of lower logical order" (J.van GIGCH, 1986a, p.3) (After St.BEER).

J.van GIGCH comments: "… and therefore capable of deciding propositions, discussing criteria, or exercising regulations for systems that are themselves logically incapable of such decisions and discussions, or of self regulation (because the metalogic is inaccesible to the system's logic, or the metalanguage is capable of statements inexpressible in the system's language)" (Ibid).

A metasystem is a system of second order, i.e. describing "the change from one system to another in the delimited class… by a replacement procedure that is invariant with respect to the support employed" (1991, p.62). Such a procedure can be applied recursively and produce metasystems of second order, and so on.

M. BUNGE enounces the following axioms: "Every conceptual and every symbolic system of human knowledge, is or can be embedded in a wider system of the same kind;

"Every concrete system, save for the universe as a whole, can be included in a larger environment with which it exchanges matter or energy" (1993, p.215).

Let us observe anyhow that the "universe" is in fact the abstract – and hypothetical – keystone for the whole logical cathedral. Generally, man is a constructor of metasystems, many times unwittingly, as the motives to construct controls, regulators or rules are not included in the same.

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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