Heinz von Forster’s Cybernetics and Circularity

A selection of Heinz von Forster’s aphorisms:

The Hermeneutic Principle: “The hearer, not the speaker determines the meaning of an utterance.”

Jean Piaget’s Epistemological Postulate: “He who organises his experience organises the world”.

The Constructivist Postulate: “Experience is the cause, the world is the consequence.”

The Realist Postulate: “The World is the cause, experience is the consequence.”

The Logic of the World Principle: “The logic of the world is the logic of descriptions (of the world).”

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