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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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MODELING RELATION 2)3)

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The set of mappings in the model which reflects characteristics of the modelled entity.

This is however a matter of criteria, which themselves are used by a model builder in base of his/her frame of references (as it is when the model is made) and of his/her more or less adequate perceptions.

To appreciate the hidden postulates in models construction, the following viewpoints are specially useful:

- von FOERSTER's critique of the observer's intervention in the "observed system"(2 order cybernetics)

- KORZYBSKI's scrutinizing of our ways of abstraction through his structural differential

- KUHN's work on changes of paradigms also considered in other studies about our common use of the Cartesian and the Newtonian paradigms (R. ROSEN, for example)

- MATURANA's studies about our ways of perceptual and mental relationships with the "world out there" and the quagmire of our supposed objectivity.

Finally, it becomes crystal clear that our models can at most be homomorphic (in one or another selected way) to the modelled "object".

→ Constructivism; Isomorphism

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  • 2) Methodology or model
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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science(2020).

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