Preliminary Discussion on Mutual Compensation and Coexistence of Revivification and Integer Theories

From the seventeenth century to the late twentieth century, there emerged a modern science paradigm, which was based on the doctrines established by such scientists as Galileo, Bacon, Descartes and Newton, with mechanism, determinism and reductionism as its characteristics. The modern science paradigm had so obvious limitations that it was criticized and questioned by many scientists and philosophers in the twentieth century. In the meantime, a postmodern science paradigm, based on organism, indeterminacy, chaos, complexity and entropy, began to take form. Modern science and postmodern science respectively embody two different modes of thinking, that is, reductionism and holism. Since the two modes of thinking have their own insuperable limitations, a tension should be kept between them.