 Needless to say, any solution to this debate will have to remain open not only to research in the history of Chinese philosophy but also to advances in the general studies of language, logic, cognition and human nature. Given the universality of language and logic as human capacities or objects of use, can we assume that philosophers interested in these topics will invariably identify, uncover, or utilize analogous concepts, presuppositions, or methods, regardless of time, place, culture, or historical context, or that with conceptual advances in their understanding of these topics, their views will invariably converge? Answers to these questions will inform the methodologies involved in contemporary research on classical Chinese thought, by compelling us to interpret the writings of early Chinese philosophers from perspectives motivated by assumptions about either shared or divergent presuppositions, as the case may be.