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This chapter discusses the issue of interdisciplinary systemic synthesis, its methodological similarity to metaphysical reduction, its reliance on intuition, together with the tensions due to the differences between the Western and Eastern thinking about these issues. The concept of systemic synthesis is summarized and discussed, a short overview of last century developments in Western epistemology and metaphysics is given, the basic differences with Eastern thinking about these issues are highlighted, and recent Eastern theories of systemic synthesis and knowledge creation are discussed together with the scientific, naturalistic and evolutionary theory of intuition which are motivated by these theories.
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Wierzbicki, A.P. (2016). Systemic Synthesis and Metaphysics: Eastern versus Western Thinking. In: Nakamori, Y. (eds) Knowledge Synthesis. Translational Systems Sciences, vol 5. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55218-5_1
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