战国时,名家的代表人物公孙龙曾提出一个命题叫“白马非马”。他说:“马者所以命形也,白者所以命色也。命色者非命形也。故曰:白马非马。”他认为“马”这个名称所表示的是马的形体,“白”表示的是马的颜色,“白马”包含有“马”和“白”两层意思,不能跟“马”等同,所以他说“白马非马”。公孙龙的“白马非马”论,揭示了事物与概念之间、个别与一般之间的差别,这在古代中国逻辑史 During the Warring States Period, the famous representative Gongsun Long made a proposition called “white horse non-horse ”. He said: “The horse is so life-like, the white, so the life is also color. Life-color non-shape also. Therefore, the white horse is not a horse.” “He believes that the” horse “is the name of the horse ”White“ means the color of the horse, ”White Horse“ contains the meaning of ”Ma“ and ”White“, and can not be equated with ”Ma“, so he says ” White horse non-horse “. Gongsun Long’s theory of ”white horse and non-horse" reveals the difference between things and concepts, between the individual and the general,