The Epistemological Aspect of the I-Ching
Author: Chun-Hsieh Shih
Abstract:
The knowledge of framework called formal knowledge, such as mathematics, logic, and language, can be used to interpret other branches of knowledge. After studying the I-ching, the author finds that the I-ching can be regarded as a kind of formal knowledge.
The rules of the yin and the yang and the patterns of changes manifest the I-ching's con-cepts under the influence of the mataphysics, thus forming its way of reasoning. The author al-so makes a point of the practical contributions of the I-ching to the instruction of technology, and explains them with examples.
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