柳宗元,字子厚,山西永济县人,生活于中唐时期。早年在京都做官,后因参加“永贞革新”于公元805年被贬为湖南永州司马,公元815年改贬广西柳州任刺史,四年后在柳州病故。柳宗元在文学上不仅创获颇丰,还与韩愈一起倡导了“古文运动”,被尊为“唐宋八大家”之一。在哲学上他坚持元气一元论的唯物主义自然观,并坚决反对因果报应的宗教唯心主义观点。这些思想在中国哲学史上都占有重要位置。相比之下,柳宗元在逻辑学上的作为却没有那么令人注目,这似乎是他无专述逻辑思想的论著之 Liu Zongyuan, the word thick, Yongji County, Shanxi Province, living in the Tang period. In his early years as an official in Kyoto, he was dismissed as Sima of Yongzhou in Hunan in the year 805 for participating in the “Yongzhen Reform”. In 815, he changed his name to the provincial governor of Liuzhou in Guangxi and died in Liuzhou four years later. Liu Zongyuan not only achieved considerable literary success, but also together with Han Yu advocated the “classical movement”, was honored as “one of the Tang and Song dynasties.” In philosophy, he insisted on the materialist view of nature of the metaphysical monism and firmly opposed the religious idealism of karma. These ideas occupy an important position in the history of Chinese philosophy. In contrast, Liu Zongyuan’s logic is less striking, which seems to be his treatise on logical thinking