《周易》象数思维中的矛盾现象

《周易》的象数思维是从取象向逻辑思维的一种推移 ,是以符号和数为媒介 ,认识、推断或预测事物及其发展变化的思维形式 ,它在借助形象思维的时候总是伴随着数的变化 ,以象数合一的观念考察事物变化的过程和规律。象数思维包括取象思维和运数思维两种思维模式 ,在《周易》的象数思维中 ,存在着取象的有序性与无序性的矛盾 ,也存在着“运数”比类的矛盾现象。

Controversies in the Xiang and Shu Thinking in the Book of Changes

The thinking contained in the Xiang (the multitudinous figures of the eight trigrams) and shu (the numbers of Yin and Yang, Odds and Evens) in the Book of Changes is a shift from xiang to logical thinking and relies on symbols and numbers for the understanding, inference and prediction of things and their changes and development. Image thinking and logical changes are always combined in examining the process of the change of things and the law governing it. There exist such contradictions in the xiang and shu thinking as the orderly and disorderly adoption of xiang.