The value added here was one culture <i>dropped</i> its inferior notational difference. There was no clear &quot;cross-pollination&quot;, as each culture preferred its own notation, until reform came along.<p>What is the equivalent in philosophical cross-pollination? Are some philosophies going to be dropped in favour of better ones? This doesn&#x27;t even happen withing a lot of western cliques.<p>The nearest equivalent to notational reform I can think of is terminology&#x2F;lexical reform, maybe, though there are a lot of ambiguities that confound this (in contrast to mathematics). In fact, it might even imply that anglo-centrism is a <i>good</i> thing, due to the standard common language.