Titlebook: Dao Companion to Chinese Philosophy of Logic; Yiu-ming Fung Book 2020 Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 Buddhist Yin-ming.Chinese Logic.

Exonerate

Truth in Pre-Han Thought and informatively frame inquiry into the topic of truth in Chinese philosophy. It then offers concise interpretations of several concepts in pre-Han texts with conceptual roles overlapping that of truth.

Flavouring

Contradictionreal, and things always exist as the unity of opposites. Although “S cannot be P and not-P” is logically consistent, it is an abstraction that does not take the context of the utterance and multi-dimension of things into consideration. On the contrary, a proposition like “S is P and not-P,” though p

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Wernickes-area

易弯曲

Lucubrate

黑豹

Counterfactual Conditionalsated by many Chinese and Western sinologists or linguists, we can find different kinds of counterfactual markers and other linguistic devices in modern and classical Chinese. Based on textual evidence in Classical Chinese, I will demonstrate that counterfactual expressions and reasonings are often used by ancient Chinese thinkers.

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Reasoning (, 譬, , 侔, , 援, , 推)ion, i.e., asserting the falsity of a proposition. In addition, I will point out that the last reasoning pattern includes two kinds of “stopping” (. 止), that is, inductive and deductive “stopping” inferences.