PREMIUM FEATURE
Advanced Search Filters
Filter search results by source, date, and more with our premium search tools.
The second-order cybernetics worked out by Heinz von Foerster is rightly held to be a constructivist theory, if not an a manifesto for operational co… - Niklas Luhmann
" "The second-order cybernetics worked out by Heinz von Foerster is rightly held to be a constructivist theory, if not an a manifesto for operational constructivism. The reverse doesn't apply, however. Constructivist epistemologies do not necessarily have the rigor of a cybernetics of cybernetics. One can observe cognitions as constructions of an observer, without linking with this the theory that the observing observer observes himself or herself as an observer.
English
Collect this quote
About Niklas Luhmann
Niklas Luhmann (December 8, 1927 – November 6, 1998) was a German sociologist, and a prominent thinker in sociological systems theory.
Also Known As
Alternative Names:
Niklas Luhrmann
Related quotes. More quotes will automatically load as you scroll down, or you can use the load more buttons.
Additional quotes by Niklas Luhmann
Does knowledge rest on construction in the sense that it only functions because the knowing system is operatively closed, therefore: because it can maintain no operative contact with the outside world; and because it therefore remains dependent, for everything that it constructs, on its own distinction between self-reference and allo-reference?
Limited Time Offer
Premium members can get their quote collection automatically imported into their Quotewise collections.
Loading...