 The second basic approach can be seen as derived from the negation of the two positions we have just described, or their common features and, in fact, denied the positivistic functions of language. This approach also contained two different epistemological currents: the first was pre-linguistic and had its main representative in Laozi (ca 6th century BC), while the second current, which found its most famous exponent in the Confucian Mengzi, argued that language was not necessarily innate (Mengzi CTP: Gongsun Chou shang, 2.8, also see Hansen 1989: 110–111). Their moral epistemology was equally based solely upon introspection.