| Hu Shi is one of the pioneers of Chinese logic research,has made great contribution to the study of logic of Mohist School.Hu Shi explicitly discussed Moh Tih’s philosophical method-“the pragmatic method” and demonstration method-“the three lows of reasoning”,he thought that the two methods are the basic conceptions of Moh Tih’s theory,“universal love”,“anti-militarism” and other thoughts are the application of this fundamental conception.Hu Shi elaborated the logical thought of scientific Mohism in detail.Hu Shi summed three definitions of “knowing” as intelligence,perception and understanding,and discussed the methods of obtaining knowledge.Hu Shi thought that “dispute” is a method of distinguishing right from wrong and truth from falsehood.It’s basic method is that “selecting instances on the principle of similarity and affirming on the principle of similarity ”.It’s general method is “huo”,“jia”,“hsiao”,“pi”,“mou”,“yuan”,“tuei”,and “Hsiao” is a deductive method,“tuei” is a inductive method,the task of induction is to seek “that with the obtaining of which something becomes”,the task of deduction is to draw inferences from forms or known and formulated causes.Hu Shi called the ten paradoxes and the twenty-one paradoxes as “paradoxes”,he made a detailed explanation on the classification of them in terms of time and space.Hu Shi’s study on the logic of Mohist School is of great importance.His application of comparative research method,the generalization of the logical significance of “the three lows of reasoning” and the analysis of the author of “The Neo-Mohist Texts”,have an extremely important influence on the study of the Mohist logic. |
