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"Outside Thinking" and "Horizontal Logic"

Jie Shang
- 01 Dec 2010 - 
- Vol. 5, Iss: 4, pp 601-620
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In this paper, a kind of "horizontal logic" is proposed, which discards the presupposition on the origin of things, that is, it no longer presumes that this point or that point has greater privilege than others.
Abstract
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.”

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