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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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OBJECTIFICATION 1)2)3)

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J.van GIGCH writes: "In EINSTEIN's science, "objectification" consists of inventing mathematical equations whose "objects "are mathematical entities. The senses and perception do not intervene in any way, except to the extent that observational data become "objects" of theoretical statements "(2002, p. 202)

van Gigch comments: "The extend to which these objects are conceived independently of perception or of empirical data is somewhat debatable" (Ibid)

According to von FOERSTER such independence is a delusion. Einstein himself "conceives a threefold distinction between:

a) the external world

b) the observer's perception of that external world; and

c) our notions of it" (Ibid)

Accordingly, EINSTEIN wrote: "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality"

The test is not about certainty or truth, but about practical usefulness.

→ Mathematical truth; Objectivity; Ontological skepticism; Reality (Riddle of); Reference frame

Categories

  • 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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