“Zhengming–Yongming” and the Study of the History of Chinese Logic —Comment on A New Theory of the Historical Development of Logic in the Pre-Qin Era

Studies in Logic, Vol. 14, No. 3 (2021): 82–87   PII: 1674-3202(2021)-03-0082-06

Zeng Zhaoshi 曾昭式, A New Theory of the Historical Development of Logic in the Pre-Qin Era 先秦逻辑新论, Beijing: Science Press, 2018

<正>A New Theory of the Historical Development of Logic in the Pre-Qin Era by Zeng Zhaoshi 曾昭式, Institute of Logic and Cognition, Sun Yat-sen University, is an excellent research achievement on pre-Qin logic, which was listed into the National Achievements Library of Philosophy and Social Sciences (2017). Based on a profound summary and reflection of the research on the history of Chinese logic over the past one hundred years, this book gives a systematic interpretation of the thought of logic in the pre-Qin era. It represents the author’s profound thinking on the logic of the pre-Qin era (actually also Chinese logic) and on how to study it.