Algorithm Characteristics and Logic Foundation of Chinese Image Thinking

Abstract

Communication in science and culture between China and the West should go further into thinking patterns and the logic of language. This article reveals that Chinese image (xiang) thinking is based on “extracting the image and transcending the form.” Different from the abstract concept and formal logic of Western rational thinking, the foundations and laws of this approach are “name-image” and “image-quantity logic.” This article raises and explains two major derivation laws of “image-quantity logic”: analogical reasoning and Taiji reasoning, the observing regulations of which are the law of similarity (or the law of growth), the law of time sequencing, and the law of Taiji (or the law of evolution). The procedural algorithm system of traditional Chinese mathematics follows the tradition of the image-quantity algorithm. The image-quantity logic can also be called ancient Chinese algorithm logic and generation logic. They are similar to modern computer mathematics and systems science.

Keywords

image thinking / name-image / image-quantity algorithm / derivation / image-quantity logic

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