The Art of Thinking of Chinese Ancient Sages: Logical Space-Time Series

Author: Sun Zhongyuan
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: This book processes typical cases with the aim of unifying popularity, scientific rigor, and authenticity. To enhance popularity, it cites ancient texts and explains them in modern Chinese. To ensure scientific rigor, accuracy, and authenticity, and for easy reference, it marks many citations with specific chapters and volumes. A small amount of classical Chinese is included as evidence for arguments and is placed in footnotes for optional reading. The book lists typical cases, which serve as the basis for analyzing thinking skills and elaborating on logical knowledge, often titled as sections. Thinking skills and logical knowledge (thinking patterns, concepts, propositions, inferences, and thinking methods) are the elevation of these cases, often titled as chapters. Typical cases of thinking skills are the materials, the classics, the outlines, and the cross-sections, while logical knowledge is the viewpoints, the weaves, the frameworks, and the vertical sections. The method adopted is to use viewpoints to guide materials, derive logical knowledge from typical cases of thinking skills, interweave the weaves and frameworks, and present a comprehensive and intricate argument. The Book of Songs, Small Yue, "The Crane Cries" says: "The stone of other mountains can be used to polish jade." Modern logic, originating from the West, is a common thinking tool for humanity in the modern era and the key to unlocking the mysteries of the thinking skills of Chinese sages. Du Fu's poem "Gazing at Mount Tai" states: "I shall climb to the peak and survey the surrounding mountains." Standing at the pinnacle of modern logic with a macroscopic and transcendent gaze allows one to survey the entirety of the thinking skills of Chinese sages.