Chapter 16 renowned

Feng Youlan: His (Jin Yuelin) demeanor is very similar to Ji Kang, a great metaphysician in the Wei and Jin Dynasties.The characteristic of Ji Kang is that "the more famous he is, the more he will be natural", he is innocent and straightforward, so is Jin Yuelin. Feng Youlan's comments on Jin Yuelin's "On Dao" and "On Knowledge" are: "The Tao is superior to the green cow, and the white horse is high." (The green cow refers to Lao Tzu, and the white horse refers to Gongsun Long) Mr. Zhang Shenfu once said that Jin Yuelin is the number one person in Chinese philosophy.

Mr. Ouyang Zhongshi said: "If you talk about logic, he (Jin Yuelin) is definitely the first." Wang Zengqi wrote: Jin Yuelin has the heart of a child.He once said: The clearer the meaning, the poorer the emotional sustenance, and the richer the emotional sustenance, the less clear the meaning. In the eyes of the young critic Wang Xiaoyu, Jin Yuelin is a very childish person, he said: "Mr. image." Calligrapher Ouyang Zhongshi recalled Jin Yuelin: "He is an idol I admire. He speaks very little and is very dull, but his impression is not necessarily deep. Like introducing someone to you, 'he', 'him', seems to have passed through After thinking for a while, whether to call him Mr. or Comrade. After thinking for a long time, he said, "Sir", and then he said it. It can be seen that he settled on Mr. after a lot of thinking. In fact, he did not act. There is no content, but because he is so dull, he feels that there is a lot to write about."

Yin Haiguang praised Jin Yuelin's "Logic": "As soon as this book came out, it was as bright as a comet in the sky." He also said, "This book is the first high-level modern logic written by a Chinese. Only this book Let’s talk about the text, if you add one word, you will get more, and if you subtract one word, you will get less.” Finally, he suddenly threw the book on the table and said, “Listen, it’s really the sound of throwing gold and stones!” Yin Haiguang, Jin Yuelin's early student at Southwest Associated University, once described Jin Yuelin's influence on him in this way: "In such an atmosphere, I suddenly met Mr. Jin Yuelin, a professional teacher. It was like seeing the sun in a thick fog! His influence is too decisive. He is not only a professor of logic and British empiricism, but also an intellectual with a strong sense of morality. Seven years of teachings in Kunming, severe judgments, and calls for moral consciousness, now In retrospect, it has really molded my character and ideological life.... As for him, he is so substantive, rigorous, easy-going, humorous, and high-spirited. vague."

In 1935, Guo Zhanbo said in "The History of Chinese Thought in the Past Fifty Years" that in the past 50 years of Chinese thinking, "there is only Mr. Jin Yuelin who can truly integrate various method systems and establish a new method system in China. He also said that Jin's "thoughts are too thorough, the theory is too deep, and the writing is too rigorous. Those who are not good at using symbols cannot understand his theoretical thinking, and there are not many people who are good at using symbols, so they understand Mr. Jin's theoretical thinking. There are very few people."

Jin Yuelin is the founder who introduced Western logic to China. Wang Zisong believes: "If Mr. Jin's academic research continues to develop, he may become the Aristotle of modern China, but unfortunately this development process was interrupted later. "