Logic in China

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In the history of logic, logic in China plays a particularly interesting role due to its length and relative isolation from the strong current of development of the study of logic in Europe and the Islamic world.

Contents 1 Confucian legalism 2 Mohist logic 3 Daoist skepticism 4 The repression of the study of logic 5 External links

Confucian legalism

Mohist logic

The Mohist school of Chinese philosophy contained an approach to logic and argumentation that stresses analogical resoning over deductive reasoning, and is based on the three fa, or methods of drawing distinctions between kinds of things.

Daoist skepticism

The repression of the study of logic

External links

• Article on Logic in China at the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• Later Mohist Dialecticians