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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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STRUCTURALISM and HISTORICISM 1)3)

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BLAUBERG, SADOVSKY and YUDIN point out: "In the literature on the question, structuralism is not infrequently presented as antithetic to historicism. It is stated that any structural research rejects the historical approach in principle" (1977, p.31). The authors do no accept this viewpoint.

This observation is concurrent to others by different authors and corresponds to a tendency to formalism noted in the works of some structuralists (in linguistics and cultural anthropology for example).

On the other hand an a-historical stand is only part of a non-dynamical one and serves as a basis for an artificial opposition between structure and function.

Obviously, however structure is a historic remainder or memory of a probably more or less cyclic process and it can persist on a long term basis in the future only if the process remains functional.

Furthermore, behavior is incited by structures, which are traces of older behavior (cf. the concept of stigmergy).

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