Five alternative summaries are given below the following text. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the text. The reductive atomistic picture of explanation, which suggests that the right way to understand complex wholes is always to break them down into their smallest parts, leads us to think that truth is revealed at the end of that other seventeenth-century invention, the microscope. When microscopes dominate our imagination, we feel that the large wholes we deal with in everyday experience as mere appearances. Only the particles revealed at the bottom of the microscope are real. Thus, to an extent, unknown in earlier times our dominant technology shapes our symbolism and thereby our metaphysics, our view about what is real. The heathen in his blindness bows down to wood and stone - steel and glass, plastic and rubber and silicon - of his own devising and sees them as the final truth. a. Reliance upon telescopes is better than reliance upon microscopes as telescopes provide a magnified view of the celestial bodies. b. Our dominant technology shapes our view about what is real. c. According to Gestalt psychology - the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. d. A heathen accepts materialism as the final truth. e. Dominant technology has ruined tradition. Interested in CLs products, to know more check here: bit.ly/eProduct_Center
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