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Frontiers of Philosophy in China

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Front Phil Chin    2010, Vol. 5 Issue (4) : 601-620    https://doi.org/10.1007/s11466-010-0117-z
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“Outside Thinking” and “Horizontal Logic”
SHANG Jie()
Institute of Philosophy, China Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing 100732, China
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Metaphysics is a repeated act by way of “representation”; the instantaneous judgment is solidified, the inevitable conclusion is made, and at the same time other possibilities are excluded. “Outside thinking” is a blow to the spiritual tradition of metaphysics, which holds that “representation” will lead to a differential activity concerning the relationship between stranger things. Such relationship follows a kind of “horizontal logic,” the latter discards the presupposition on the “origin” of things, that is, it no longer presumes that this point or that point has greater privilege than “other points.” Things do not develop from a central point. Rather, things are the result of innumerable “points” in cooperative relationships between strangers. These cooperative relationships are arbitrary. In “horizontal logic,” many “starting points” or “spiritual T-points” are used as substitutes for a unique “origin.”

Keywords spiritual T-point      outside thinking      horizontal logic      neutral language     
Corresponding Author(s): SHANG Jie,Email:shangjie5649@sina.com   
Issue Date: 05 December 2010
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SHANG Jie. “Outside Thinking” and “Horizontal Logic”[J]. Front Phil Chin, 2010, 5(4): 601-620.
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