Reinterpretation Of The Concept Of Pre - Qin Chinese Logic Theory

Pre-Qin was the most important period in which the logic of ancient China started to form, to establish and to develop, and was also the greatest time in our country when the logic thought formed the Chinese characteristic, achieved huge progress, and made contribution to establish the logic science. China's ancient logic in that time has a very scientific and very complete theoretical system. But in ancient China logic did not have the word : "concept". For a long time to the study of Chinese traditional logic, "Names" has been deemed formal logic of "concept" to interpret. This article through the research concept's origin, the essence, the application, inspects the Chinese pre-Qin logic theory and discovered, although the words and concepts that are inextricably linked, but the "Names" is the essence of the emphasis on words, not the same concept. The concept should contain two aspects: first, has refers to the reference function the language; second, with the language corresponding mind performance, the interpreter, is the thinking or idea. Gong sun Long on the "Names" and "Means" theory, corresponding to the concept of these two aspects, can represent the word "concept" we said today.