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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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SCHOLASTICISM 1)2)3)

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R. GLANVILLE writes (1999): "One aspect of Scholasticism of great significance was the notion of the organization of knowledge.

The scholastic philosophers believed that the way pieces of knowledge. fitted together was itself a sort of knowledge. They organized knowledge so that knowing the place of any piece of knowledge in the grand scheme of knowledge (the totality), its connections to the whole, and, in principle all knowledge- the totality-could be deduced. Every part implied (was in concordance with) every other part (each was manifest in the others)"

Glanville quotes PANOFSKY's work on "Gothic architecture and scholasticism "(1957),"arrangement according to a system of homologous parts and parts of parts". He adds: "The latin words were summa, concordantia and manifestatio. It is no wonder that the scholastics invented the Encyclopedia in a form in which we know recognize it"(Ibid)

Today there is obviously a need to compensate-not to eliminate- the massive disjunction between so many specialized disciplines. Systemic and cybernetic concepts and models should be considered as semantic and linguistic connectors, that can be used to construct a renovated connected and coherent general language, reconstructed in the spirit of scholasticism.

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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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