Only The Chinese Have Two Eyes

Ancient stereotypes die hard. In La Route de la Soie , Aly Mazahà �ri quoted this ancient Persian and Arab saying from the Sassanian Dynasty (226-c. 640 AD):

"The Greeks never invented anything except some theories. They never taught any art. But the Chinese were different. They did teach all their arts, but indeed had no scientific theories whatever " . (Aly Mazahà �ri, 1983; Ji, 1996)

I will not go so far as Mazahà �ri to say " they " do only this and " we " do only that, nor will I claim that someone is definitely deductive in outlook just because he was born in London. It is not that easy. The making of every civilization's treasures and contributions towards history is determined by its methodology for explaining the world's phenomena according to its own experience and mode of rational interpretation: The East became "more" inductive while the West become "more" deductive -- this appears to be born out by all he evidence. - The East-West dichotomy (2009) 

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