On Zhao Jibin's Study On The Logic Of The Pre-Qin Period

Zhao Jibin , as a famous expert on the history of philosopher and an educationalist in China, undertook the movements of the students and farmers during his early years, and from 1934 he turned to the fields of culture and education, and then focused on the education and researches on Chinese Philosophy, History of Chinese Philosophy, History of Thinking, Ethics, Logic and History of Logic. Successively, he has written General History of Chinese Philosophy, Records on Kun and Zhi, New Research on the Analects of Confucius, Records on Kun and Zhi: Volume Two, and otherwise. Zhao Jibin has made great contribution to the study of History of Chinese Logic.Zhao Jibin has his own characteristics in the study of pre-Qin Thought on Logic. He divided the developing process of pre-Qin Logic into three stages: the Budding period, the Developing period and the Burly period. During the study on the thought of pre-Qin scholars, Zhao Jibin employs a method of historical analysis by putting their theories into specific historical circumstances and analyses the uderstanding of logic under the histoical background. And for the followers, such a method plays an important role in researching the History of Chinese logic.Zhao Jinbin emphasizes the Tuilei thinking of Pre-Qin. He believes that this kind of illation is similar with the analogism of the Greek Logic, but differed from it. The Tuilei method is a kind of reasoning that one owns a kind of attribution, so does the other. According to this theory, it is the foundation of reasoning to consider the two as one class. Therefore, CLASS is an extremely signified concept of the Pre-Qin Logic. On the basis above, Zhao Jinbin ,who studied the process of Tuilei's birth and development, shows a clear view on the contribution of scolars of pre-qin periods to the history of Chinese Logic.