ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to consider the practice and theory of Fengshui – a kind of ‘local knowledge’ – from philosophy of science. It focuses on the exploration of practice characteristics of Fengshui by philosophy of scientific practice as the tool of analysis, rather than appealing to whether ancient Chinese local knowledge is a science, or whether it contains a scientific component. From a certain perspective of modern science, Fengshui in China have been regarded as superstition and witchcraft. The common sensical understanding on them stayed on an early stage without further in-depth view. In the traditional philosophy of science, the demarcation of science has generally gone through four stages: an absolute standard of logic doctrine, a relative standard of Historicism, the elimination of science demarcation, and the rebuilding of the demarcation of diverse criteria. Scientific knowledge comes from the process of interactive practice between human and nature.
