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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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REFRAMING 2)3)

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A shift in one's viewpoint that allows for different aspects of an issue or theory to be taken in account.

Reframing has been a characteristical mental and conceptual attitude in epistemology and even in specific scientific disciplines all along the 20 century.

It is highly visible in scientists and thinkers as different as MARX, PLANCK, EINSTEIN, BERTALANFFY, BACHELARD, KORZYBSKI, etc., and more recently D. BOHM and M. FOUCAULT and of course H.von FOERSTER and MATURANA and VARELA.

Reframing has also been extensively used by the Merida School of Interpretive Systemology in Venezuela for the study of social issues in that country.

Such a mind stretching strategy by which the very methodology of inquiry is expanded in order to avoid multiple contradictions leaves lingering doubts about the nature of human understanding, at least as it was firmly and strongly believed to be in classical thinking until at least the end of the 19 century.

→ Knowldege; Ontological skepticism; Order (Implicate); Reference frame

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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