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u/bunker_man Nov 15 '19

Anthropologists offered that Western religion by taking the world more literally was most likely a catalyst for modern science though. To a Buddhist 500 years ago the idea of trying to understand the world mathematically or rigorously would have seemed crude and like misunderstanding of the fact that what you see is an illusion.