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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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SUBSUMPTIVE TRANSFORMATION 2)4)

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"(The) bringing together (of) diverse views and ideas and transforming those by aggregating and integrating them into a new and more encompassing perspective" (1990a, p.60-70).

J. WARFIELD and M. AYIKU state: "In seeking a subsumption transformation, three fundamental assumptions are involved:

- the assumption of continuity:… people will not relinquish an internalized long held framework discontinuously… Consequently, any new framework that is proposed must subsume (i.e. incorporate, but go beyond) the old framework

- the assumption of increased cognitive burden:… Since the new framework subsumes the old one, it necessarily involves increased cognitive burden because it incorporate more concepts and requires a new web of interactions among them to permit adequate interpretations.

- the assumption of necessary cognitive enhancement:… If the burden of cognition is increased, then there must be provided means of enhancing cognitive capability in order to compensate for the increased burden" (1989, p.27 – abridged).

This is very important for systemics, which produce indeed an "increased cognitive burden" and seems at times to break continuity with long hold conceptual frameworks. The authors have put their fingers on some of the main difficulties to communicate systemic viewpoints.

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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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