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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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UNCORRELATED EXTREMES (Law of) 2)4)

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"No matter what the complex issue, and no matter what the group involved in its study, the initial aggregate group opinion concerning the logical pattern of the factors involved in the issue and the final aggregate group opinion concerning the logical pattern of the factors involved in the issue (i.e. the views at the two extremes…) will be uncorrelated; showing that significant learning takes place through the application of the Generic Design process" (J.N. WARFIELD, 1995, p.145).

The law is evident for anyone who has once participated to a group discussion. The point is that its practical consequences (the "Babel tower effect") are generally not perceived, and still less taken care of.

Still more important is that WARFIELD's methodology of Interpretive Structural Modeling through Nominal Group Technique permits the discovery of the whole field of opinions, as well as their relative weights. It thus opens the way to a thorough evaluation by the group of the whole range of opinions, avoiding resentment from those who otherwise should not have been given a voice. In this way, a base for real consensus can be constructed.

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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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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (2020). Title of the entry. In Charles François (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics (2). Retrieved from www.systemspedia.org/[full/url]

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