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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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SEPARABILITY AXIOM 1)3)

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Any operation should be completely independent from the performing operator.

This axiom of disjunctive logic is the bedrock of the analytic Cartesian method.

Its validity is however growingly curtailed in modern science, since it is now evident that, in many (if not in all) cases, it is not possible to satisfy the separability condition.

The operator is most frequently an active agent in the operation process. It is merely acceptable to neglect his/her influence when he/she is only an observer whose influence is insignificant in space or time dimensional domain.

Systems science in particular needs a conjunctive logic. In J.C. LUGAN's words: "… the organization, the organized object, the organization 's product and the organizer cannot be separated" (1993, p.91).

Examples abound, from the quantic to the human systems level.

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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