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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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The French philosopher G. BACHELARD, in his "Philosophie du non" (1949), was one of the very firsts to state clearly the progressive but unavoidable escape of most sciences from the limits of the aristotelic and mechanicist thinking. He emphasized the importance of connections and complementarity (as for example in HEISENBERG's indeterminacy) as leading to the need for "non-analycity"). He also discussed KORZYBSKI's non-aristotelician logic (1933) and O.L. REISER's "Non-aristotelician logic and the crisis in science" (1937). This led him to extol the synthetic value of no-, or nonpositions in the sciences, meaning a general conceptual extension outside the boundaries of classical reductionist ones, but without excluding these latter.

We are now able to better understand his proposals, for an inductive and synthetic epistemology, after the discovery of non-newtonian dynamics, non-equilibrium chemistry, non-homeostatic systems, nonlinear and non-deterministic macrosystems (i.e. chaotic determinism) (all of these already preceeded by non-euclid ian geometries during the 19th century!).

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