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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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SEMANTIC FILTER 3)5)

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G.L. FARRE states: "A semantic filter results form the projection of a semantic matrix onto some corresponding type of observation space"(1998b, p. 266)

For example, while the semantic matrix of the meteorologist and the one of the climatologist have many common features, they differ:

1- by the time dimension of their research

2- by the way they interconnect the results of their observations

FARRE expresses this in the following sentence: "Thus construed (Note:i.e. on the base of a specific semantic matrix mediating into a specific language by a syntax), the semantic filter effectively defines the universe of discourse U of the language, which is the domain of what the language is about, what it describes and what the operational end of the semantic filter is designed to probe: the observations are thus theory laden" (p. 267)

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  • 1) General information
  • 2) Methodology or model
  • 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
  • 4) Human sciences
  • 5) Discipline oriented

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