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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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SOCIAL REFLEXIVITY 4)

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J. CUNNINGHAM (2001, p. 65), quotes A. GIDDENS (1990) and writes: "Anthony GIDDENS has argued that the society in which we live is increasingly the result of our own actions, both individually and collectively, a condition he refers to as social reflexivity. He counters the common assumption that as we acquire more and more knowledge of the world and build structures of society, we will gain control over our lives. Quite the contrary, we "manufacture" uncertainties that give us more choices, diverse possibilities, less clarity about an appropriate action. Modern technologies such as the World Wide Web have contributed greatly to social reflexivity and I argue that traditional models of education, emphasizing as they do inductive and deductive processes, are inadequate to the modern technological context.

"… I propose that abductive reasoning is a more powerful mode for navigating the uncertainties of the Information Age and promoting a semiotic reflexivity" (Ibid)

In short, conversation should become our best way to discover ways to permanent adaptiveness. Of course conversation must be conducted through efficient reciprocal understanding if we are to avoid the universal Babel Tower effect. This implies the necessity of an appropriate- and also reflexive-language

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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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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science(2020).

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