CAOT 31 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Lead, Ontogeny, Heritability
30 Oct 2020
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Greeks tended to see stability in the world (e. g. , The greeks were inclined to see matter as being composed of discrete objects or atoms. Chinese saw the world as constantly changing, indeed, in line with the yin and yang of the tao, as always being in the process of reverting to the opposite of the current state. Chinese were disposed to see matter as continuous substances, even as interpenetrating substances. Greeks tended to focus on the object and to explain its behavior with reference only to its properties and the categories to which it belonged. Chinese recognized that action always occurs in a field of forces, understood much about magnetism and acoustics, and recognized the true reason for the tides. Relevant rules were sometimes of the most abstract kind, namely logical rules, and the focus on the rules governing the object"s behavior gave the greeks a sense of control over the object.
