Chinese Logic History

Author: Zhou Yunzhi, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: One of the major characteristics and advantages of this book is that it comprehensively summarizes the history and achievements of the study of ancient Chinese logic in the latter half of the 20th century, making this China's History of Logic a long-standing and highly innovative general history of Chinese logic. The book employs traditional logic methods and preliminarily applies modern propositional logic and predicate logic methods to research, express, and argue the logical thought methods of ancient Chinese logic, which is a positive and commendable approach. Our China's History of Logic monograph insists on taking the history of the emergence and development of formal logic thought in China as its main object and scope, and adheres to scientific modern mathematical logic and correct traditional logic as the primary research methods. Given the many confusions and misunderstandings in the field of the history of Chinese logic regarding objects, nature, and methods, our China's History of Logic monograph has decided to devote more space than any previous works on the history of Chinese logic, striving to elaborate on the object, scope, and methods of the history of Chinese logic from the perspective of modern logic science. It first discusses the relationship between the history of Chinese logic and related disciplines such as the history of philosophy, the history of dialectical logic, the history of linguistics, the history of semiotics, the history of semantics, and the history of the study of names and debates. Therefore, the "Introduction" of our book actually serves to redefine the discipline of "China's History of Logic" and plays a role in clarifying various confusions or misunderstandings about this discipline. This is one of the important characteristics of our China's History of Logic monograph.