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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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GLOBAL AND LOCAL 1)4)

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G.L. FARRE makes the following important point: "The global and the local: the first is purely conceptual, while the second is ultimately sensorial "(2000, p. 245)

He adds: "Observation is a mix of the two, the former being projected onto the other. There is no case where the one is got without the other in the context of the sciences of nature "(Ibid)

This is significant in various way:

- the global view is always constructed. It is in fact a constructed frame of reference. It is thus always subject to reform and falsifiable in Popper's meaning

- this applies to the hypothetical general "theory of everything" as well as to the current theories about so-called globalization in human affairs (ecology, economy, social conditions, cultures)

- as different people may have quite different mind frames, both the global and the local view should be viewed as relative, avoiding definitive unilateral and exclusivist stances. Even the scientific history of the 19 and 20 centuries shows as much.

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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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