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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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RHEOMODE 3)

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A mode of thinking and of using language that underscores a world view in which "… all is an unbroken and undivided movement and… each "thing" is abstracted only as a relatively invariant side or aspect of this movement" (D.BOHM, 1980, p.47)

D. BOHM, who proposed this neologism, states that this new mode "… can help to draw our attention to the way in which our ordinary language-structure puts strong and subtle pressures on us to hold a fragmentary world view" (Ibid).

BOHM observes that our present language structure is "… dominated by the divisive form of subject-verb-object… (which) tends continually to lead to fragmentation" (Ibid, p.31).

As we are generally not conscious of this ingrained bias, our whole way of forming concepts and models becomes unilateraly distorted.

BOHM does not give many factual indications for acquiring the art of such rheomodal language, but A. KORZYBSKI, in "Science and Sanity" offered numerous psychological tricks to practice it (under the different label of non aristotelician language) (1933, 1950).

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