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Is It True that East is East and West is West and Never the Twain Shall Meet?

Abstract
In this paper, the author hopes to encourage a questioning of what certain habits, customs and traditions mean to each of these two societies and how they may have originated. Why is there such a disparity in each society's approach to the perception of the human condition and in its reactions to the world around them? Discussion will be based upon the immense differences in the age and origin of ...
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Keywords
Perception
History
Geography
Sociology
Aesthetics
Epistemology
Philosophy
Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
Reduced inequalities

2004
Article

Open Access


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Is It True that East is East and West is West and Never the Twain Shall Meet?
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Is It True that East is East and West is West and Never the Twain Shall Meet?

Abstract
In this paper, the author hopes to encourage a questioning of what certain habits, customs and traditions mean to each of these two societies and how they may have originated. Why is there such a disparity in each society's approach to the perception of the human condition and in its reactions to the world around them? Discussion will be based upon the immense differences in the age and origin of ...
View PDF
Keywords
Perception
History
Geography
Sociology
Aesthetics
Epistemology
Philosophy
Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
Reduced inequalities

2004
Article

Open Access


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2013
Book
This is a collection of work on perception written between 1999 and 2012. Chapters discuss the relation between perception and thought, between perception and representation, between perception and perceptual experience which is not perception, and b...