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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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TRIADIC RELATION 2)

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The semiotic relation between object and interpretant through sign or symbol.

The triadic relation was the great discovery of C.S. PEIRCE, according to whom "…. but one triadic node-type, with two in-branches and one out-branch is necessary for infinite variety of structure" (Quoted by H.M. PAYNTER, 1968, p.76).

Many contemporary developments as for example general semantics (KORZYBSKI), learning matrixes (STEINBUCH), constructivism (von GLASERSFELD), generic design (WARFIELD), process theory (SABELLI) have been, directly or not, influenced by the triadic model.

The basic triadic act is naming, i.e. creating a symbolic bridge between subject and object. Obviously, it is the subject who constructs the bridge. The ignorance of the naming act and its relative value, induces ontologie absolutism with its aftermath of logical, psychological, conceptual and practical problems. As a result, J. WARFIELD insists in his lectures that "Questions are superior to assertive hypotheses as bases for scientific study" and that "Every question involves contextual implications" and if and when a point can be reached "where there is no contextual implication (we reach) the axiomatic domain" (pers. comm.).

Of course, within the axiomatic domain, we cannot speak about anything concrete: we have reached mental organizational closure. No systemist should ever forget this when constructing a model.

F. FRISCHKNECHT and J.van GIGCH have used an "Information-System-Processing triad" as the "Common core of human disciplines" (1989, p.239-252).

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  • 2) Methodology or model
  • 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
  • 4) Human sciences
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