Zhouyi and science is what relationship exists.
At the end of September the national learning and scientific symposium of this issue has once again become the focus.About Zhouyi and scientific relations, the most famous addresses from another.
Because criticism of Zhouyi, refers to the lack of Zhouyi, deductive method and ultimately leads to the ancient no scientific results, Chen Ning Yang from vocal and at all levels.Think "ancient Chinese science" usually can set out numerous "ancient example of technological achievements".
Careful observation can be found, most of which come from everyday experience. For example, Chinese traditional medicine activities using drugs, probably from the accumulation of experience. This kind of experience not only all of mankind, animals. Compositae Beach wormwood, medicine name anomala. History of the South that Song emperor Liu Yu in the snake of guided discovery of this plant in the effectiveness of treatment of trauma, posterity, summoned by name Liu Yu small herbal call this one. A similar situation in outdoor environments is not uncommon.In ancient West, similar situations have occurred.
And China's "five elements" similar, Greece invented the "rows" a "element system" metaphor, everything in the universe. Under the guidance of the experience they had built a lot of error theory, such as Germany chemists Stahl to clarify the nature of the famous theory of combustion — — a "burn in".Experience was not "(natural) science of the source.
Because of the accumulation of experience, only the symptoms for things. If you are not equipped with the necessary technical means, it still does not reveal its real. So the ancients can only experience and some easily observed in nature, appropriate assumptions, which in turn made an "ethnic cultures of knowledge".Those with a strong flavor
of theory, are the ancients as observation means restrictions on all things not clear understanding of the world. They reflect the thousands of years ago, the peoples of the world's predecessors the awareness level. In modern times, with the development of science and technology, the observation of the nature of the tools continue to progress, mankind has finally can be used by our predecessors unimaginable means to see things change, and to reveal its real. Traditional era "know however don't know characterizes", or "know it so well wrong characterizes" one by one. We commonly referred to as "the (natural) science", which from then on.If further investigation of the modern science of development process can be found, (General) science, is not an isolated event, but rather Western society since modern times a series of changes.
It is the Western society in its unique social development process, since certain practical need, eventually led to the scientific revolution in modern times. If we recognize the "Needham" in a certain sense, to be effective, it should be reversed into the "why Europe is able to produce modern science".Go back and look at the before argument, it is not difficult to find, whether they are holders of a "scientific" in ancient China, or holding that "the book of science", most of the usual "zoom" sciences, such as "scientific" reduced to "seek truth from facts", or pull out the banner of "social sciences".
As a result, will discuss "what is a science". At this point of view before you make a lot of heated discussions, "whether the traditional Chinese medicine, scientific controversy" problem seems to be becoming more simple: If only the validity of the "treatment" and "the theory of the system of" and "traditional cultural expression" as the standard of "Science", then the answer is Yes. However, the problem is really that simple?□ Xu Lai (Beijing edit)
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