最素朴的思维方式可以说是前逻辑或原逻辑,预设着一个民族逻辑思想的发展方向。先秦时代具有丰富的素朴辩证法思想,辩证思维已然成为了先秦诸子自觉或不自觉地用来分析问题、解决问题的一种思维方式。从先秦名学的角度看,先秦时期辩证思维对先秦名学的影响,主要体现在诸子在对名实关系的探讨中,认识到了"名"本身蕴含着的矛盾对立面的关系、名与实的运动变化性以及在新的条件下原有的名实对应关系会发生改变等情况,这些都蕴涵着辩证思维的精神。以先秦儒家为例,探讨先秦时期辩证思维对先秦名学的影响,不仅有利于展现先秦时期逻辑思想发生、发展的全过程,而且对先秦时期逻辑思想的拓展和深化有重要作用。
The simplest mode of thought is pre-logic or original logic,which may influence the direction that a tradition's logical thought develops.The early Chinese era embraced a rich source of naive dialecticism and thinkers of the time employed dialectical thinking—consciously or not—to analyze and solve problems.Taking the study of names for example,pre-Qin dialectical thinking had directly influenced traditional thinkers' understanding of the relationship between names and actualities.They held,in a spirit of dialectics,that names involved the contradictory relationship between opposites,that names and actualities were in a constant state of movement or variation,and that the relationship between names and actualities was subject to change corresponding to new conditions.Focusing on the influence of pre-Qin dialectical thinking on ancient logical studies of names,with special reference to pre-Qin Confucianism,this study examines the origin and development of logical thought in the pre-Qin period in order to broaden and deepen our understanding of Chinese logical thought.