Methodus als Lebensweg bei Johann Conrad Dannhauer. Existentialisierung der Dialektik in der Lutherischen Orthodoxie

Abstract

an implicit use of the concept of semantic truth in ancient China (ch.6), which is different from Hansen’s view. The approach of Yiu-ming Fung and others is sometimes criticized as ‘(mis)interpreting Chinese texts in a Western framework’. In recent years, there has been a strong call to use informal logic or generalized argumentation in the research of the history of Chinese logic, but in the eyes of more conservative researchers, this still may not count as ‘interpreting Chinese texts in an intrinsic Chinese framework’. Did logic exist in ancient China? Is mingbian consistent with Western logic or is it a separate type of logic? Should the Mohist logic be seen primarily as a branch of logic, rhetoric, or pragmatics? These are the most fundamental questions in the field of the history of Chinese logic, which concerns the legitimacy of the discipline of ‘ancient Chinese logic’. The collection would have been more relevant to the theme of the philosophy of logic if it were supplemented by a discussion from this perspective.