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An important recent development is Eastern approaches to the issue of knowledge creation, a subject partly neglected in Western philosophy. These approaches are essentially naturalistic and evolutionary, stressing the circular development of knowledge based on spiral-like development resulting from positive feedback. In such approaches, nature is the reason and cause as well as the effect of social development of knowledge.
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Nonaka and Takeuchi propose the word converted, but conversion implies that the original resource is used up, while knowledge is not diminished by its use.
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Wierzbicki, A.P. (2016). Evolutionary Knowledge Creation from an Eastern Perspective. In: Nakamori, Y. (eds) Knowledge Synthesis. Translational Systems Sciences, vol 5. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55218-5_3
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