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cyberneticism

cyberneticism noun: the use of cybernetics as a problem-solving approach.

Noun

cyberneticism (countable and uncountable, plural cyberneticisms)

  1. The use of cybernetics as a problem-solving approach.
    • But this Marxian conceptual-political component of poststructuralism […] leaves an intellectual structure that is mostly the expression of early twentieth-century cyberneticisms: and no young intellectual in the late 1990s, in the midst of an information-processing upheaval, can really believe that...1996, Patricia Meyer Spacks, Advocacy in the Classroom: Problems and Possibilities, page 104
    • Cyberneticism is, finally, a refined form of scientism, and therefore it is also more dangerous. This form of scientism is not based on linear causality, as mechanistic thought is; rather, it is based on circular causality.2024, Egbert Schuurman, Ruben Alvarado, Technology and Christianity: Essays on the Interface, page 113

Forms of cyberneticism

pluralcyberneticisms

Origin of cyberneticism

From cybernetic + -ism.

Questions about cyberneticism

What does cyberneticism mean?
Cyberneticism means the use of cybernetics as a problem-solving approach.
What part of speech is cyberneticism?
Cyberneticism is a noun.
What is the plural of cyberneticism?
The plural of cyberneticism is cyberneticisms.

Words near cyberneticism in the dictionary

  1. cybernetic organisms
  2. cybernetical
  3. cybernetically
  4. cybernetician
  5. cyberneticians
  6. cyberneticism
  7. cyberneticisms
  8. cyberneticist
  9. cyberneticists
  10. cyberneticization
  11. cyberneticizations

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