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A Ternary Domanial Structure as a Basis for Cybernetics and its Place in Knowledge

D.J. Stewart (Brunei University and Human Factors Research Ltd, UK)

Kybernetes

ISSN: 0368-492X

Article publication date: 1 April 1989

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Abstract

It is shown that there are already in the literature two theoretical discontinuities, that between energy and information and that between description and evaluation, which serve to define a set of three domains. Examination of the relationship between these discontinuities and domains leads to a special sense of the concept of “domain”, the new concept of a “tern” and a “Principle of Ternality”. A theoretical structure is built up using this principle. Because concepts relating to value, judgement, and justification have a natural place in the proposed structure, it is offered as a means by which cybernetics can relate not only to the rest of science but also to other branches of knowledge.

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Stewart, D.J. (1989), "A Ternary Domanial Structure as a Basis for Cybernetics and its Place in Knowledge", Kybernetes, Vol. 18 No. 4, pp. 19-28. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb005824

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