sentences:  One major difference between Tang and the original Neo-Confucianists is that Tang framed his work through contrasts with Western philosophy.For example, Tang’s concept of the heart-mind, a single entity responsible for cognition, emotion, and will, is an originally Neo-Confucian idea.Tang argued that the heart-mind is the key to all human understanding in his 1977 book Life, Existence, and the Horizons of the Heart-Mind.