 Within the framework of his structurally ordered system of thought, Zhang Dongsun decidedly rejected the Modern Confucian paradigm expressed in the glorification of intuition as the most objective mystical method for innate knowledge. Zhang believed that reason was the only reliable and unequivocal method of comprehension; because it led us to knowledge that was not only logically consistent but also applicable, there was no need to search for any other, more reliable method. However, the rational method was not one-dimensional and undiversified, for it not only functioned in accordance to the pure formal structure, but also with the aid of the so-called intuitive insight (touzhi 透智), which represented an inseparable and complementary part of intuitive methods. Thus, by proceeding from ratio centrism, Zhang Dongsun finally managed to overcome the boundary between reason and intuition (Zhang 1924: 76). However, according to him, the thing we are directly confronted with, is neither reason nor intuition, but knowledge itself. Knowledge is a result of reason, but it implies intuition on an unconscious level. Intuition is not mysterious. It merely represents a process of applying a philosophical “method of counter-investigation”, by which we peel away from the image of knowledge the ultimate, most intimate thing. And this thing is the pure, completely unregulated “that.” (Zhang 1924: 64–65)