Abstract:
Guo Xiang’s epistemology is always regarded as a sort of mysticism and know-nothingism because he took an “ignorance-and-negligence” view. This understanding of Guo’s epistemology can’t hold water, for it resulted from viewing and superfluously and partially understanding only one aspect of his theory. In fact, Guo’s view of epistemology embodies three aspects, one of which is “ignorance-and-negligence”. If we see his view of “ignorance-and-negligence” in terms of an agreemenet of the three aspects, Guo’s view is by no means mysticism. Guo Xiang’s ontology of “individualization” is not a theory or methodology of logical analysis, but an overt and phenomenal realm, which calls for thinking in images.
