ABSTRACT
The answers to the two questions of this book raised in the Prologue are now clear. To the question, 'Whose theory of tradition is the best?', the answer would have to be Derrida's, for it is the most consistent, the most complete, the most explanatory in principle--it tells us the most about tradition. And to the second, more general question, 'Are there genetic codes in science, literature, and philosophy?', the answer again is yes, if we understand that we are referring to the unique decoding/encoding (or recoding) cycle of a tradition form, rather than a subtantially existing pattern present and unchanging throughout changes of tradition forms.
