Chapter 3
Cognitive style of early theoretical culture
The case of Ancient Greece
Article outline
- 3.0Introduction
- 3.1The contrast between Eastern and Western types of reasoning and the concept of cognitive style
- 3.2Peculiarities of cognitive operations in the first large-scale civilizations
- 3.3The cognitive style of the ancient greek mathematics
(on the example of Euclid’s elements)
- 3.4The cognitive style of the ancient greek historiography
(on the example of treatises of Herodotus and Thucydides)
- 3.5Conclusion
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Notes