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IDONEITY

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Charles François (2004). IDONEITY, International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(1): 1612.
Collection International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics
Year 2004
Vol. (num.) 2(1)
ID 1612
Object type Epistemology, ontology or semantics

Fitness, or relevance of models and theories, in relation to reality.

This concept was developed by the Swiss epistemologist F. GONSETH in his epistemological study of the evolution of geometry in the 19th and 20th Centuries. It has been reintroduced by E. SCHWARZ (1994 b, p.581).

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