@article{752639,
      recid = {752639},
      author = {Nakamori, Yoshiteru,},
      title = {Knowledge synthesis western and eastern cultural  perspectives / [electronic resource] :},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
      abstract = {This book provides readers the idea of systemically  synthesizing various kind of knowledge, which needs to  combine analytical thinking and synthetic thinking. Systems  science is expected to help in solving contemporary complex  problems, utilizing interdisciplinary knowledge effectively  and combining analytical thinking and synthetic thinking  efficiently. However, traditional systems science has been  divided into two schools: one seeks a systematic procedure  to give a correct objective answer; the other develops an  emergent, systemic process so that the user can continue  exploratory learning. It is not an exaggeration to say that  analytical thinking and synthetic thinking have been  developed independently, in different schools. This book  integrates approaches developed in these two schools, using  ideas in knowledge science that have been emerging recently  under the influence of Eastern thinking. It emphasizes the  importance of utilizing intuition in systems approaches,  whereas other books usually try to solve problems  rationally and objectively, rejecting subjectivity. This  book never denies rationality and objectivity; however,  complex problems of today do not always yield to complete  analysis. The novelty of this present volume is that it  takes in the ideas of synthetic thinking in knowledge  science to develop systems science further. The chapter  contributors, who are experienced systems scientists with a  profound understanding of knowledge management, discuss  knowledge synthesis from the Western and Eastern cultural  perspectives. The book introduces a theory on systemic  knowledge synthesis in an odd chapter and then presents an  application of the theory in the next chapter in order to  contribute to developing translational systems science.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/752639},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55218-5},
}