这个问题类似于李约瑟难题，有没有可能也是一个伪命题？
李約瑟難題是一個對於中國歷史發展提出的問題，最早由英國學者李約瑟在1930年代開始研究中國科技史時提出，1976年美國經濟學家肯尼思·博爾丁正式將這個歷史問題稱為「李約瑟難題」（英語：Needham's Grand Question）。其主題是「儘管中國古代對人類科技發展做出了很多重要貢獻，但為什麼科學和工業革命沒有在近代的中國發生？」很多人把李約瑟難題進一步推廣，出現「中國近代科學為什麼落後」、「中國為什麼在近代落後了」等問題，對其爭論一直非常熱烈。「為何科學發生在西方社會？」則是李約瑟問題的反面。
https://zh.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%8E%E7%BA%A6%E7%91%9F%E9%9A%BE%E9%A2%98
「李約瑟問題」的來由，出自一位英國研究生物胚胎學的科學家李約瑟(Joseph Needham)，「李約瑟問題」的內容就是，為什麼十五世紀以前，將自然知識應用於人類需求的工藝技術遠遠領先歐洲的中國，後來沒有發展出近代科學。
https://case.ntu.edu.tw/blog/?p=36183
早歲在美國名校習得物理博士，回到香港中文大學後投入科學哲學與文化研究的陳方正，花了甚長時間撰成一本九百頁的巨著《繼承與叛逆》，爬梳西方近代科學自希臘傳統以降的傳承歷史文獻，試圖回答其著作書面的副標題「現代科學為何出現於西方」，事實上正是針對於所謂「李約瑟問題」的一個回覆。
在陳方正的巨著中，他以文獻佐證了近代科學，雖說是萌生於十七世紀的歐洲，但是其所傳承的思想歷史，事實上溯自古希臘的那個傳統，而且那個傳統一脈相承，自成體系，反觀中國的歷史傳統，完全沒有這樣一個思維承傳，因此不應該問為什麼中國沒有發展出近代科學，而是中國根本不可能發展出近代科學，也就是說所謂的「李約瑟問題」是一個假議題。
https://www.books.com.tw/products/0010906398
Is it possible that this question, similar to the Joseph Lee conundrum, is also a pseudo-proposition?
The Joseph Lee dilemma is a question posed about the historical development of China, first raised by the British scholar Joseph Lee in the 1930s when he began his research on the history of Chinese science and technology, and formally called the historical question the "Joseph Lee dilemma" (English: Needham's Grand Question) by the American economist Kenneth Boulding in 1976. Its theme was "Why did the scientific and industrial revolution not occur in modern China, despite the many important contributions of ancient China to the development of human science and technology? Many people have further promoted Joseph Lee's problem, and questions such as "Why did China lag behind in modern science" and "Why did China lag behind in modern times" have been hotly debated. "Why did science happen in Western societies? is the flip side of Joseph Li's question.
https://zh.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%8E%E7%BA%A6%E7%91%9F%E9%9A%BE%E9%A2%98
"Joseph Needham, a British scientist who studied biological embryology, asked why China, which was so far ahead of Europe in applying natural knowledge to human needs before the fifteenth century, did not develop modern science.
https://case.ntu.edu.tw/blog/?p=36183
After completing his doctorate in physics at a prestigious university in the United States and returning to the Chinese University of Hong Kong to engage in the study of philosophy of science and culture, F.C. Chan spent a long time writing a 900-page book, Inheritance and Rebellion, which crawls through the historical literature on the succession of modern Western science since the Greek tradition, in an attempt to answer the written subtitle of his book, "Why Modern Science Emerged in the West", which is in fact a response to the so-called "Joseph Lee's Question". This is in fact a reply to the so-called "Joseph Lee's question.
In Chen Fangzheng's magnum opus, he proved with literature that although modern science was born in Europe in the seventeenth century, the history of ideas inherited from it is in fact traced back to the ancient Greek tradition, and that tradition has been inherited from one generation to the next and has become a system of its own, while the historical tradition of China, on the contrary, does not have such an inheritance of ideas at all. Therefore, we should not ask why China did not develop modern science, but rather, it is impossible for China to develop modern science, that is, the so-called "Joseph Lee's question" is a false issue.
https://www.books.com.tw/products/0010906398
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