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| Law: Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior. Law helps to maintain and protect people's rights. See also Rights, Society, State, Jurisdiction._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Norbert Wiener on Law - Dictionary of Arguments
II 107 Law/Wiener: Legal problems are communicative and cybernetic, i.e. they are the problems of orderly and repeatable regulation of certain critical situations. Ideas/Wiener: Our patent law is based on a misunderstanding of the concept of invention. II 108 This has to do with a fundamental error concerning the essence of communication itself. It is a false theory of invention on which copyright is based. >Invention/discovery, >Copyright, >Authorship, >Ideas. An invention is an invention if it is based on an incomplete knowledge of its subject matter. >Knowledge, >Innovation. II 116 In the USA, the discoverer is denied any ownership rights to a natural law discovered by him. >Natural laws._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
WienerN I Norbert Wiener Cybernetics, Second Edition: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine Cambridge, MA 1965 WienerN II N. Wiener The Human Use of Human Beings (Cybernetics and Society), Boston 1952 German Edition: Mensch und Menschmaschine Frankfurt/M. 1952 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-19