Chinese—A Conceptual or a Notational Language

Sinologues have often stressed the importance of language structure for the understanding of East-Asiatic culture, and given expression to the belief that the difference between Chinese and Western thought had its cause in the peculiarity of Chinese logic. Much thought was thus given to the question, what alteration in his thinking mechanism a European must undergo in order to understand Chinese literature and art in the way an educated Chinese person does. This led to the question of the possibility of a logic without function words and symbols, i.e. without bound and free grammar words, and what changes in logic that would entail

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