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Assuming that the future can be known, it must be of great assistance in making decisions as well as the key to triumph or defeat, prosperity or decline, and success or failure. Human beings desire to foresee the future, comprehend the future, and, in the long run, explore the future. From the ancient times, human beings have developed a variety of prediction methods of different goals and scope. For instance, all kinds of quantitative statistical software are capable of providing analysis and prediction; however, for statistics, the academia around the world is still at the stage of learning. Despite much progress in theory and in practice, there are still some difficulties for application. For example,First, when no appropriate information is provided for analysis;Second, when the result of the statistical analysis often shows olarization;Third, when the result of the statistical analysis is sometimes incompatible with real perception;Fourth, when the factorial ANOVA is hard to perform; Fifth, when a great many problems fail to be accomplished by quantitative statistical analysis,However, how do we make the right decisions and what do we rely on? This study attempts to construct the prediction model for making decisions through the viewpoints of the macrocosm, the philosophy of life, the essence of management, the hint of prediction and the inspiration of making decisions in I-Ching. “A Treatise on the Sequence of the Hexagrams” is a field which is rarely examined and put into practice in I-Ching. Through the comprehension of I-Ching, this study aims to probe the content of “A Treatise on the Sequence of the Hexagrams”, which includes the variety of permutations of sixty-four hexagrams and to combine with the related theories such as Chaos Theory, Fuzzy Theory, Theory of Relativity, Causal Theory, Cycle Theory, Evolution Theory and Genesis. The study attempts to seek a constant model between the sequence and variety of the hexagrams. By means of this model, people can hold the key of I-Ching prediction, deduce the trend of the future, unravel the mystery of divination, disentangle the complication of divination, obviate the difficulty of divination, solve the perplexity of divination and break the fallacy of superstition. This study aims to discover the origins of events by means of utilizing analysis of events instead of divination, and further to acquire the process of “the derivation by sequence.” Having the ability to predict the future would be easier to find the solutions to the problems. Taiwan is now at the moment of the new order in the world, and encounters great variations in politics, economy and society. People in Taiwan are full of uncertainty for the future. One of the chapters in this study combines with the related exploration of the future by means of the prediction model in the sequence of the hexagrams in I-Ching to verify the history of Taiwan and predict the future-in politics, economy and society. The purpose of it is to realize the past and explore the future. This prediction model is able to verify the past. Based on the model, the method can be extended when the future is explored and constructed. Apart from the inspiration for the statesmen, the prediction model in this study is able to be applied to the planning in an industry, the assistance of raising a family and the development for an individual. As “A Treatise on the Sequence of the Hexagrams in I-Ching” says, “An event will start to change after its end, then the new development will start to form after the change; at last, it will last long after the new development. Therefore, a special providence will preserve it from the disadvantages so that there will not be big defects.” Based on the verification from the history of Taiwan, this study concludes that the result remains at the stage of “the Hexagram of Tun”, “the Hexagram of Meng” and “the Hexagram of Wei-ji”; namely, it is incomplete. Hence, the work on the new method in this study, “the Prediction Model in I-Ching”, is still in its infancy. There are still limitations in the verification of this study both in theory and in practice. Scholars and experts related to this field are expected to further explore more studies, to adjust the foundation of the model, or to verify from different aspects so that the foundation of prediction in I-Ching will be much more stable and the decision making will be even more precise with a view to helping the development for human future.
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