2022_심화영어독해와작문

still photograph attribute dogma magnetism acoustic phenomena In a study, we showed participants still photographs of a train in the countryside or an animal in a particular setting, and we watched where they were looking. The American subjects spent nearly all of their time looking at the central object, concentrating on what its attributes were. The East Asian subjects, however, looked back and forth between the context and the object. They were able to tell us much more about the context than the Americans could at the end. So, you’ve established that differences between the Eastern and Western ways of thinking exist. Where do those differences come from? We must look into the foundations of ancient Chinese and Greek thinking to answer that question. Twenty-five hundred years ago, it was known to Chinese thinkers that there can be action at a distance. The reason for the tides was understood by the ancient Chinese. That wasn’t understood even by Galileo, the great 17th-century scientist. In fact, in the West, it was scientific dogma that there can be action only if there’s connection, material touching material. Interestingly, it was 18th-century scientists who proved that there could be action at a distance―magnetism, acoustic phenomena, and so on. And it’s important to understand that science as we know it was shaped by the Greeks. Their impact was possible because they thought in terms of rules about categories. And, at its core, science is all about rules about categories. And now let’s think about formal logic. It’s not generally known in the West where we got formal logic from. Some people tend to think, “Well, we always had it.” No, we didn’t. Lee: Nisbett: Nisbett: Compare and Contrast Q4 How does the ancient Chinese understanding of action at a distance compare to Western scientific beliefs? Find a word which means: • a quality or characteristic that something has: 5 10 15 20 42 I Unit 2