Cybernetics & Human Knowing - Thesaurus pilot project
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Construct

Definition

A mental way of ordering a number of elements, observations or data in some manner coherent with previously structured knowledge.

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Principia Cybernetica
International Encyclopedia of Systems & Cybernetics

 

Principia Cybernetica (web)
A hypothetical variable or system which does not purport to accurately represent or model given observations but has a heuristic or interpretative value concerning them.

Construct may be

  1. ideal types as the economistīs concept of rational behaviour
  2. hypothetical entities,processes or mechanisms which would explain the connections between observed causes and consequences if those entities, processses or mechanisms existed

the algoritms capable of generating a certain process or product without evidence for whether this rather than another computational procedure is followed in practice.

 

Encyclopedia Autopoietica
no def.

International Encyclopedia of Systems & Cybernetics
A mental way of ordering a number of elements, observations or data in some manner coherent with previously structured knowledge

Constructs are results of mental operations.

The concept of construct starts from the understanding that a simple, incoherent collection of any kind of elements, observations or data would be uselesss for any purpose and that the observer is necessarily ordering them somehow.