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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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SYNTACTICS 1)3)

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The branch of semiotics that deals with the properties of signs and symbols and with their formal relations.

Correct syntactics is the condition of a transparent use of any language. It implies proper coordination between all the rules characteristic of the language, and thus its global structure.

GERNERT (2000 a, p. 155) comments: "Syntactic information is the alteration produced by incoming signals in the heads of telecommunication engineers who are waiting at the end of the channel and valuate the finished transmission under the aspects of their profession, e.g. channel capacity, efficiency, or reliability"(p. 160)

This seems to be basically a technical viewpoint, bearing upon communication under SHANNON's original meaning.

GERNERT himself made the point (his 2000 b) paper), quoted in the entry "Information theory")

Even so, syntactics seems to include two codings:

1) an electro-magnetic one through which a specific electro-magnetic signal corresponds to a specific sign

2) a sign (for example, a spoken word) corresponding to a shared code between a sender and a receiver, let us say for example "pencil" in a telephone conversation (What is the meaning of "Bleistift" for someone who does not know german?)

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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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