In the history of logic, logic in China plays a particularly interesting role due to its length and relative isolation from the strong current of developement of the study of logic in Europe and the Islamic world. The history of logic documents the development of logic as it occurs in various rival cultures and traditions in history. ... Logic (from ancient Greek λόγος (logos), originally meaning the word, or what is spoken, but coming to mean thought or reason) is most often said to be the study of arguments, although the exact definition of logic is a matter of controversy amongst philosophers (see below). ... A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is geologically and geographically a peninsula, forming the westernmost part of Eurasia. ... The Islamic world is the world-wide community of all believers in Islam, who are known as Muslims, and who number approximately one-and-a-half billion people. ...
The Mohist school of Chinese philosophy contained an approach to logic and argumentation that stresses analogical resoning over deductive reasoning, and is based on the three fa, or methods of drawing distinctions between kinds of things. Founded by Mo Zi (whose actual surname was Di, and whose given name was Mo), Mohism (墨家), or Moism, is a Chinese philosophy that evolved at the same time as Confucianism, Taoism and Legalism (Hundred Schools of Thought). ... Chinese philosophy has a history of several thousand years. ... Logic (from ancient Greek λόγος (logos), originally meaning the word, or what is spoken, but coming to mean thought or reason) is most often said to be the study of arguments, although the exact definition of logic is a matter of controversy amongst philosophers (see below). ... Deductive reasoning is the process of reaching a conclusion that is guaranteed to follow, if the evidence provided is true and the reasoning used to reach the conclusion is correct. ...
Although exact dates are uncertain, particularly in the case of India, it is possible that logic emerged in all three societies by the 4th century BC.
In China, a contemporary of Confucius, Mozi, "Master Mo", is credited with founding the Mohist school, whose canons dealt with issues relating to valid inference and the conditions of correct conclusions.
Stoic logic traced its roots back to Euclid of Megara, a pupil of Socrates, and with its concentration on propositional logic was perhaps closer to modern logic.
China has suggested resolving Sino-Indian border disputes through consultations on 'equal footing, mutual understanding, accommodation and mutual adjustment'.
Qiyue said Hu told Vajpayee that China wanted to strengthen cooperation with India in all areas and was looking forward to his visit.
China's legitimate borders can at best be as it was when it became one of the earliest signatory to UN Charter.
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