China is a special case in the history of logic, due to its relatively long isolation from the corresponding traditions that developed in Europe, India, and the Islamic world.
The Mohist school contained an approach to logic and argumentation that stresses rhetorical analogies over mathematical reasoning, and is based on the three fa, or methods of drawing distinctions between kinds of things.
Although Taoist skeptics such as Zhuang Zhou agreed with the Mohist perspective about object relations regarding similarities and differences, they did not consider language to be sufficiently precise to provide a constant guide of action.
Disagreeing with Hajime Nakamura, A. C. Graham argues the school of Neo-Taoism maintained some interest in the Canons, although they may already have some of the terminology difficult to understand.
Outside of the PRC, Hao Wang, a mathematical logician who was a close friend of Kurt Gödel, and Mou Zongsan, one of the New Confucian scholars and a translator of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus were active.