How i came to hate this site
... establishments?¡¨ is in fact however merely just a summary of my viewpoints and answers which I have developed throughout the years. In the first section of the essay, ¡§Logical Tradition in India and China¡¨ I will attempt to give evidence of critical thinking in two Asian cultures that I have chosen; namely India and China. In India, I will argue that critical thinking is clearly visible in historical texts such as the Caraka and Nyayasutra. This is presented as the well-known five-membered argument, a system of logical deduction, similar to the Aristotelian syllogism found in the west. In China I would focus mainly on the two schools of logical thought, the Mohists and the Logicians. For the Mohists I would argue that critical thinking is a vital element in the building of what they call ¡§mental models.¡¨ For the Logicians, I would study deeply the writings of Hui Shih and Kungsun Lung, I would show that in fact both of them developed systems of logical and paradoxical thinking that could well serve as the foundations of modern science. If critical thinking is clearly presentable in these Asian cultures then why are there still concerns for introducing it to them? This is the question I intend to answer in the latter section ¡§Needham's Grand Question and Fuller's Interpretation.¡¨ During this section, I would also show that discussions of modern science seem to enable us t...