The Great Knowledge Transcendence [electronic resource] : The Rise of Western Science and Technology Reframed / by Dengjian Jin.

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Jin, Dengjian [author.]

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Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016Description: XII, 312 p. online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781137527943

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Electronic books.

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909 23

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D17-D24.5

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In: Springer eBooksSummary: This book illustrates the unnaturalness of modern science and technology by tracing their cognitive, evolutionary, and religious origins. It elaborates that all premodern knowers faced inherent limits, and the West was able to develop modern science and technology because of its inherent contradictions forcing the transcendence of limitations.

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This book illustrates the unnaturalness of modern science and technology by tracing their cognitive, evolutionary, and religious origins. It elaborates that all premodern knowers faced inherent limits, and the West was able to develop modern science and technology because of its inherent contradictions forcing the transcendence of limitations.